Streetcar Vehicles
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Streetcar Vehicles Historic Replicas Breezer Car The Birney HART purchased nine 400 series A Breezer is an open-air streetcar The Tampa & Ybor City Street replica streetcars from the where passengers board directly Railway Society Birney #163 is Gomaco Trolley Company of into their row, there is no one main a fully restored original Tampa Ida Grove, Iowa. The streetcars entrance onto the car. Weather streetcar that ran on the system are based on a design created by blinds are located at the ends of each from 1923 to 1946. It is similar in HART resembling the double-truck row in case of inclement weather. style to our historic replicas, but Birney Safety streetcars used on A safety barrier is lowered after all smaller. This is the only restored Tampa’s streets between the 1920s patrons are seated. Breezer streetcars operating streetcar in the State and 1946.The numbers on the originated with flatbed, horse drawn of Florida. It was salvaged from streetcars picked up where the wagons fitted with benches which a backyard in Sulphur Springs original Tampa system left off, the first appears in the U.S. in the 1830s. in 1991, where it was first used final car in the original system was Tampa’s original streetcar system as an apartment and then as a #427, we begin with #428. included 50 Breezers as of 1914. The storage shed. Some of the wood streetcar is used in regular service, used to restore #163 are: ash on TECO Line Streetcar weather permitting. The Breezer the roof, oak flooring, cherry Specifications: comfortably seats 78 passengers with seats, and mahogany wall panels, • 46-feet long and 48,000 room for an additional 10 standing window frames, and doors. It pounds passengers in the cab area at each took over 10,000 volunteer hours end. A motorman and conductor are to put #163 back on the tracks. • 8-feet 6-inches wide by needed to operate this car, whereas All monies and materials were 12 ½-feet high the regular streetcars only require a donations from our generous • The capacity of each vehicle motorman. This Breezer streetcar was community. is 74 passengers (44 seated and built in 1984 by the Gomaco Trolley 30 standing). Company, the same manufacturer • Factory-installed air who built the other streetcars in the conditioning fleet. Accessible for one patron with a wheelchair. Tampa’s only “Open-Air” Streetcar!.