A collection of historic tramcars sits in a fairly well lit modern shed. Nearest the camera is a saloon style car painted in a cream colour with diagonal black stripes on its lower body sides and ends. The drivers cab has three windows and an access door with running board/step is on the front right corner, and all the windows along the side of the saloon have been painted or boarded over. The number 19W is prominent in black numerals below the central headlight at lower front apron, and a fixed destination display announces FREIGHT CAR in white lettering on a black background above the central drivers cab window.

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Railmaps (railmaps@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 25-Oct-2024 03:29:07 UTC Railmaps

Today's historic #photo of the day: Exactly 37 years ago today, Melbourne's only remaining U class #tram the city's oldest surviving electric car, no 19W, built in 1906 by J.G. Brill of Philadelphia, sits alongside W2 class tram no 331 in a shed at the Tramway Museum Society of Victoria's museum at Bylands, Vic, October 25 1987.

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