Douglas Southern Electric Tram - 2010-05-08

The Lord Baltimore was a design of electric streetcar truck dating from in 1896. It was built by the Baltimore Car Wheel Company of

Baltimore Baltimore is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland. With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census and estimated at 568,271 in 2024, it is the 30th-most populous U.S. city. The Baltimore metropolitan area is the 20th-large ...

in the US state of

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. It is easily identified by the ''Lord Baltimore'' lettering on the truck's side frames. The truck was used on a number of

streetcar A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in Canada and the United States) is an urban rail transit in which vehicles, whether individual railcars or multiple-unit trains, run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include s ...

s in the United States, and the

Baltimore Streetcar Museum The Baltimore Streetcar Museum (BSM) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, nonprofit museum. It is located at 1911 Falls Road (Maryland Route 25, MD 25) in Baltimore, Maryland. The museum is dedicated to preserving Baltimore's public transpo ...

now own several examples. At least one was exported and fitted to cars of the

Douglas Southern Electric Tramway Douglas Southern Electric Tramway was a standard gauge tramway between the top of Douglas Head on the Isle of Man and the nearby resort of Port Soderick. Route The route ran along from the Douglas Head end of the Marine Drive atop the cliffs an ...

on the

Isle of Man The Isle of Man ( , also ), or Mann ( ), is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland. As head of state, Charles III holds the title Lord of Mann and is represented by a Lieutenant Govern ...

. That line's car no. 1 and its truck are now preserved and displayed at the UK's

National Tramway Museum The National Tramway Museum, operating under the name Crich Tramway Village, is a transport museum located at Crich (), in the Peak District of the English county of Derbyshire. The museum's collection of trams is officially designated as being ...

Crich Crich is a village and civil parish in the English county of Derbyshire. Besides the village of Crich, the civil parish includes the nearby villages of Fritchley, Whatstandwell and Wheatcroft, Derbyshire, Wheatcroft. The population of the civi ...

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