Service Trolley No. 5000 "La Aquilina"
The truck under this trolley, belonged originally to some tramways bought by the Anglo Argentine at the first decades of the 20th Century. Those cars had central access doors (something very uncommon at those times), and only took part in one line, Line "H" (Mainly the tramway lines had numbers intead of letters), because these cars served on the special tramway service for hipical meetings (horse races) at the Hip�dromo Argentino of Palermo, in Buenos Aires.
When punters became moneyless, and had a single nickel for going back to their homes, this service tramway would take them free until La Pampa Avenue and its intersection with the railway line of the Ferrocarril Central Argentino, (FCCA), at Belgrano, another quarter of Buenos Aires. From that strange thing, when a person was left without anything of money, it was said that he was at Pampa y la v�a (Pampa and the rail), because of that intersection and this tramway.
The tramway's association plans to let passengers to step onboard this tramway, also without selling any ticket to the people who would like to ride onboard, but also without leaving them at "Pampa y la v�a".
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Another use for such trolleys. A conmemorative trolley for the 105 birthday of Bartolom� Mitre.(1927). |
