Third streetcar arrives in El Paso with vintage color scheme from 1960s
El Paso Times
July 15, 2018
Streetcar No. 1504 is pushed into the maintenance and storage facility Sunday. RUDY GUTIERREZ/EL PASO TIMES
"Streetcar No. 1504, a Presidents Conference Committee car, was part of a fleet of streetcars that ran in El Paso until 1974. This car has a green-on-green color scheme used in the 1960s. It is one of three vintage color schemes that will be used on the six restored cars. They will be reintroduced to El Paso streets after they go through a testing phase. In the coming weeks, people may see the cars traveling along their new 4.8-mile route, but they will not carry passengers yet. The six streetcars are being returned to El Paso streets due to the $97 million El Paso Streetcar Project managed by the Camino Real Regional Mobility Authority. City Rep. Peter Svarzbein says the return of the streetcars “is a way to celebrate who we are both culturally and economically” as the biggest U.S. city on the U.S.-Mexico border..."
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