Old Pueblo Trolley

Old Pueblo Trolley
The Old Pueblo Trolley car 869 at its University of Arizona terminus
Overview
Type	Heritage streetcar
Status	Operation suspended
Locale	Tucson, Arizona
Termini	5th Avenue (West) Tyndall Avenue (East)
Stations	11
Services	Friday, Saturday, and Sunday service
Daily ridership	33,000 annually
Website	www.oldpueblotrolley.org
Operation
Opened	April 17, 1993
Closed	October 8, 2011 (temporarily)
Owner	Old Pueblo Trolley, Inc.
Operator(s)	Old Pueblo Trolley
Rolling stock	3 trolleys, 2 motorbuses
Technical
Line length	1 mi (1.6 km)
Track gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Electrification	750 V DC,overhead wire
Route map [ ] Old Pueblo Trolley University Blvd.at Tyndall Avenue 4th Ave. and 6th St. 4th Ave. and 9th St. UPRR and Amtrak Congress Street Tucson Amtrak Station Broadway Boulevard (Not all stops shown)

[ ] Old Pueblo Trolley
University Blvd.at Tyndall Avenue 4th Ave. and 6th St. 4th Ave. and 9th St. UPRR and Amtrak Congress Street Tucson Amtrak Station Broadway Boulevard (Not all stops shown)

(Not all stops shown)

Old Pueblo Trolley is a non-profit, educational corporation based in Tucson, in the U.S. state of Arizona, that is dedicated to the preservation of Arizona's mass transit history. The name also commonly refers to the heritage streetcar line which OPT began operating in 1993, on which service is currently indefinitely suspended. OPT consists of three divisions that each fill a specific role in preserving the state's mass transit history. The divisions are the Street Railway Division, Motor Bus Division and the Museum Division (Southern Arizona Transportation Museum).

Old Pueblo Trolley's streetcar line opened in 1993. The trolley last ran on October 31, 2011, when service was suspended for construction of the Sun Link modern-streetcar system.

Operating on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Old Pueblo Trolley ran on just over a mile of single-track line recovered from Tucson's original street railway. From its south terminus at 5th Avenue and Broadway Boulevard the trolley ran north on 4th Avenue before heading east on University Boulevard to its terminus at Tyndall Street, just west of the University of Arizona Main Gate.

Electric streetcars began operating in Tucson on June 1, 1906, and replaced the horse- and mule-drawn cars as a mark of Tucson's "modernity". The event drew quite a crowd including the mayor, L.H. Manning and C.K. Durbin, owner of the new line. The Tucson Citizen ran an article "Electric Cars Running in Old Pueblo" in its Friday, June 1, 1906 edition.

It reported that two new electric cars left the corner of Stone Avenue and Congress Street at 2:00 P.M. for the University of Arizona filled with dignitaries and invited guests while an orchestra played a few tunes at the corner. The return trip was to Elysian Grove via Seventeenth where Emanual Drachman provided seats and refreshments for the banquet that followed. One car wore the banner, "The Goods Are Delivered L. H. M.", demonstrating that Mayor Manning had come through on his campaign platform to "promote and establish an electric streetcar system." Hence, Tucson was brought up to date, into the electric transportation era.