Tampa Streetcar Fest 2004 - The Carbarn - Page 14


                              

Cars can enter the carbarn along the right side and travel around the back through the "turnaround,"

which is a U-turn of the track that leads through the car wash.

 

The car wash

 

 

Passengers boarding old 163 after the tour of the car barn.

Note the rope in the front which the conductor uses to pull the power wheel

down off one cable and onto an adjoining cable when reversing direction.

 

 

 

The end of the line for Birney 163,

the station just beyond Centennial Park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See more photos of the Birney's restoration process, and the construction of the streetcar railway system in Tampa.


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