St. Louis
Those appear to be the old
“O-4” cars that ran from Clayton, Mo. out to the Ladue City Hall, where
they had a reversing loop around the combined City Hall/Fire Station.
The total distance was maybe three miles one way. They ran through
valleys in the hills, following creeks, and one stop was at John
Burroughs School, my alma mater (class of 1956) on Price Road between Clayton
Road and Ladue Road. I used to ride them occasionally in the late
1940s or early 1950s, probably for a nickel each ride. It was
a very picturesque line, generally running through forested, not densely
populated, early suburbia. Clayton and Ladue are suburbs of St. Louis,
Mo. In Clayton, or maybe University City, they interchanged
with the St. Louis PCC cars from downtown St. Louis.
Caption data from Ted Guy
Unknown collection

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