Open Summer Toast Rack Tram Model STL

An open-sided summer tram, the type nicknamed a "toast rack" because of its rows of cross benches. Seven rows of bench seats sit under a long curved roof carried on slim vertical posts, with a waist-height grab rail along the side, a footboard below and end dashes with headlamps. A single trolley pole rises from the roof board. Open cars like this were popular in warm weather and on seaside and holiday lines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, letting passengers enjoy the bree…

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