Ding Ding goes the Trolley
The recent excavation of Main Street in front of the new Bradley Parking deck to install traffic signals and a fake red brick crosswalk has unwittingly unveiled a Peoria time capsule …
… brick streets and trolley tracks no more than 6 inches below the asphalt street surface …
August 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
One of the requirements of the developer of the Uplands was that the trolley company extend the Main Street line. Those tracks were likely installed around 1902.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:26 am
My grandfather was a conductor on the strret car trolley for years prior to going into insurance. My aunt used to take the streetcar from the corner of Underhill and Main to her job at Bloch & Kuhl’s.
August 12th, 2008 at 11:02 am
I wonder who the first poor sap was to hit those with the air hammer while they were excavating.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
personally, I prefer the benefits of brick roads and trolleys over asphalt.
August 12th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Conrad — my great-grandfather was also a trolley conductor in Peoria. He became a bus driver when they did away with the trolleys in the ’40s.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Ah…. public transportation! A thing of the past. Where did we go wrong?
August 13th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
[...] PJStar.com posted a link to anything related to me at all. But here is a Kirk Wessler post about PeoriaIllinoisan’s post about the trolley tracks they dug up in front of Bradley University. PI is, as I am sure my regular [...]