Philadelphia's Fairmount Park Trolley: 1896 - 1946
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FPT Co. was the last American transit operation to use open trolley cars in regular service.
Trolleys made a counterclockwise loop around the park.
The park trolley was designed to be as unobtrusive as possible, tunnelling beneath all* park roadways.
Grass was sown between the rails so that all that was visible were pairs of shiny ribbons of steel.
A. W. Maginnis collection
*Almost all park roads. Ford Road was bridged over (and Strawberry Mansion Bridge spanned the East and West River Drives).
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