New Orleans Public Service, Inc. car 916 was outbound on the JACKSON LINE on Dryades Street approaching Jackson Avenue. Overhead was a maze of wires for both streetcars and the new trackless trolleys which were about to replace them. The JACKSON cars were replaced by gasoline-powered buses on 19 May 1947, and these were replaced by electric buses on 2 October 1947. The double overhead wires here would be used by both JACKSON and FRERET route trackless trolleys. The 3-story brick building in the background was the Spaulding Business College. It had been built for the Louisiana Industrial Life Insurance Co., and it was still standing in 2020. |
Date:
5/6/1947 |
Location:
New Orleans, LA Map ![Show New Orleans on a rail map](/images/map_us.gif) |
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Author: ELLIOTT M. KAHN photo, J.G. Lachaussee collection
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![NOPSI 916](http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/134217/aaaNOPSI%20Jackson%20Streetcar%20916,%20OnDryadesSt,%20NewOrleansLA,%2005-06-47,%20EMK,%20JGLColl.jpg) |
Picture Categories: Transit |
This picture is part of album: ELLIOTT KAHN |