Mayor Westfall, left, ex-mayor Salazar, County Commissioner Solis, far right … Watching Bob Norris from Pan Am Savings open bottle of champagne.
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People wait in line to board the El Paso streetcar in this undated photo.
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El Pasoans look on as trolleys roll down Cotton street. A tractor pulled the streetcars through Downtown for a day in November 1979.
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A police car escorts a tractor pulling trolley cars through downtown. Heading to the Toltec building on San Antionio Street.
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Thom Kennedy and Daniel Rivera steady a 37,000-pound trolley car as a truck rolls into position for loading.
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Nine old El Paso trolley cars have been sold, eight to a scrap metal firm.
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R.L. Thomas, a volunteer for the Del Norte Streetcar Preservation Society, leaps across streetcars as he inspects them for damage.
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Job Corps members Edward Alvarez, left, and Martin Alderete work to restore one of nine trolley cars.
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Nov. 4, 2021: Rings of the paint jobs the streetcar has seen over decades come through as Former El Paso City Council member and state representative, Joe Pickett, and his daughter sand down the body of the streetcar.
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El Paso streetcars were long held on desert land on airport property after they stopped running in the 1970s.
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One of the remaining street cars that were moved in 2015, still has its decals on it from when it was in service. The six remaining street cars were moved to Sun Metro Headquarters and then three of them will be shipped to Pennsylvania to be refurbished by the Brookville Equipment Corp.
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Crews from Alliance Riggers and Contractors loaded and moved the last remaining six street cars to Sun Metro Headquarters before shipping three of them to Pennsylvania, to the Brookville Equipment Corp. in Brookville, Pa. for restoration. After they are restored along with the three that are there presently, a total of six of the nine remaining street cars will be used when the service returns.
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Crews from Alliance Riggers and Contractors begin the process of loading and moving the last six street cars to Sun Metro Headquarters before shipping them out. Three of the remaining street carss will be shipped to Pennsylvania, to the Brookville Equipment Corp. in Brookville, Pa. to join the three presently there now. After they are refurbished a total of six of the nine remaining street cars will be used when the service returns.
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Sun Metro Maintenance Manager Gabriel Muñoz peers from the window of a 1930’s trolley car that once operated Downtown.
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City officials welcome the first refurbished streetcar back home to Downtown El Paso in March 2018.
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Members of the news media and invited guests got a closer look in March 2, 2018, at the restored PCC streetcar No. 1506 inside its new home and the future home for all of El Paso’s streetcars at the Maintenance and Storage Facility, 601 S. Santa Fe St.
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The fourth of six streetcars made its return to El Paso in Sept. 2018. As with the past three streetcars, number 1514, with a police escort, made the final turn on Father Rahm Street before being unloaded in the barn.
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Former El Paso City Lines streetcar driver Jose Cruz hold sa smallpicture frame filled with tokens that were used to ride the streetcars back when they ran between El Paso and Cuidad Juarez.
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