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#1 KevinKorell

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Posted 01 January 2018 - 06:13 PM

Asahi Shimbun, 1/1/18:

 


 

2 streetcars that survived A-bomb are still running in Hiroshima

 

 

Haruno Horimoto was 15 years old when she hopped on the first streetcar after a suspension in operations in Hiroshima. She noticed the relative silence of the passengers, and the surprise that service was running.

 

Remarkably, tram operations were available just three days after an atomic bomb reduced the city to rubble on Aug. 6, 1945.

 

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Posted 03 January 2018 - 09:21 AM

Another A bomb survivor is this trolley from Nagasaki; now preserved at Seashore Trolley Museum, Kennebunkport, ME.

 

https://collection.t...php?id=00134SJP

 

The trolley escaped destruction because at the time of the blast it was on loan to the city of Nagoya.

 

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