Historical September–October 2005 article. Dates, prices, services and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Entrepreneur Joe Edwards boards one of two genuine St. Louis trolleys which have been obtained by The Loop Trolley Company, which co-sponsored with the Missouri Historical Society, Musick Construction and Citizens for Modern Transit the Great Trolley Drop at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park in St. Louis. One of two renovated trolley cars is now displayed in the east parking lot of Commerce Bank in The Loop in University City. Joe Edwards, president of the Loop Trolley Co., hopes to build a 2.2- mile fixed-track, vintage trolley line that would loop around the history museum and run down DeBaliviere Boulevard onto Delmar Boulevard and down to University City, where it would loop at City Hall.
The Loop Trolley Co., a non-profit organization, obtained a $600,000 grant to purchase and rehab two vintage trolley cars now on display. Although building the entire line would cost about 32 Million dollars, Edwards believes it is possible. And as Ald. Lyda Krewson said to the Post-Dispatch, if anyone can make it happen, Edwards can. “He’s just a real champion for this project and so many others in University City and the City of St. Louis,” Krewson said. “He’s brought a lot of things to fruition that other folks thought wouldn’t happen. “If I had to bet, I’d bet we’d have a trolley.”
Original photograph caption
Joe Edwards boards one of two renovated trolley cars at Great Trolley Drop. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, September–October 2005.
Read this article in the original newspaper issue.
Original source: SD_Times2005_09.pdf, printed page(s) 1, 8; PDF page(s) 1, 8.
