(Image: Alan Strakey; the interior of an abandoned trolley car in Red Hook, Brooklyn)
The last electric trolley rattled along the streets of Brooklyn, New York City, in 1956. But for the last 27 years, activists in the borough’s Red Hook neighbourhood have been campaigning to bring them back. As fans of urban transportation, we’ve showcased the old Red Hook trolleys before, and taken a virtual venture inside a series of abandoned tram tunnels and trolley graveyards in Europe, America and Australia.
The photograph above by Alan Strakey takes us inside one of the decaying Red Hook streetcars. It may look battered, gutted and thoroughly worn-out, but with any luck this empty tram carcass will one day be overhauled and pressed back into service. In the meantime, you can read more about the troubled efforts to bring back streetcars to Red Hook here.
Despite ongoing bumps and setbacks as trampaigners clashed with city officials over the proposed project, the Brooklyn Paper reported in 2013 that the dream of connecting transit-starved Red Hook with downtown Brooklyn wasn’t entirely dead, unlike this abandoned trolley in Baltimore, Maryland.
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