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5008, a GC Kuhlman articulated car built in 1928, on Catalpa Rd, a street (with no outlet streets) running north from Euclid Ave to what is now the Norfolk and Southern Tracks where it dead ends. When the picture was taken the tracks at the far end of this street were owned by the Nickel Plate Road. Catalpa Rd is the last street in Cleveland off of Euclid Ave as you head east from Public Square. The City of Euclid border is a few hundred feet to the east of this location behind the building which is behind car 5008.
When I was growing up in Cleveland in the 1950s and 1960s, that building in the background was a VFW Post. This trackage was part of a short turn wye for the Euclid Ave line. Eastbound cars would stop on Euclid Ave just east of Catalpa Rd, and then back into Catalpa Rd.
When I was growing up in Cleveland in the 1950s and 1960s, that building in the background was a VFW Post. This trackage was part of a short turn wye for the Euclid Ave line. Eastbound cars would stop on Euclid Ave just east of Catalpa Rd, and then back into Catalpa Rd.
Ken Josephson collection; caption by Rich Henry
They would then make a right turn onto westbound Euclid to head back towards Windermere Carbarn and Public Square. Cars would be marked "Euclid/East Cleveland/Green Road".(Slashes indicate a new line). A car with a sign for this location is shown in cts138. There was no street car track on Green Rd when it intersects with Euclid.(Green Road is on a very steep hill near this location.)
