Description
A bright orange and cream single-truck Birney streetcar is shown on tracks outdoors. The car number 1508 is visible on the front and side, with overhead trolley wires above it. Trees and a roadside setting frame the scene. The card appears to be from the mid-20th century, likely 1950s.
Back Text (verbatim):
Single-truck Birney Car 1508
of the Virginia Electric & Power Co.
Cars of this type served Richmond, Va., until
after World War II.
Transparency courtesy Charles Wagner.
Published by the
National Capital Trolley Museum
Box 5795, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.
NCTM — 2
Capital City Postcards, 926 National Press Bldg., Wash., D.C. 20004
