Throwback Thursday or #TBT is an internet trend used among social media platforms such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. (And by bloggers like me, occasionally. Hmm, I see this is only the fifth time I've done a #TBT here on my blog. Click the label below to see them all.)
Wikipedia informed me: "On a Thursday, users post a nostalgia-inducing picture, usually from a different era of their life." No, I didn't experience the streetcar myself (I'm not THAT old), but I lived on Signal Mountain from 1965 to 1984 and knew about this streetcar line that was no longer there.
2 comments:
Nice photo and history. I had no idea that there had been a streetcar line up the mountain .. I am surprised because I would have thought the climb was too steep for a steel on steel sort of train. Other steep mountains might have a counterbalance, like the incline on Lookout, or perhaps cogwheels.
The "front" side of Signal Mountain (or Walden's Ridge) is not nearly as steep as the W Road, which you can see in the 1914 photo I posted back in March:
https://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-w-road.html
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