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Trolleybus-related
Photos
Lateral
sight of one of the VOLVO / MARCOPOLO / POWERTRONICS brazilian-manufactured
trolleybuses incorporated in the rehabilitated Route "K" in January 1994.
The colors plan that was presenting the bodyshell was corresponding to
anticipate for the units in their anticipated destination (city of Belo
Horizonte, Brazil, year 1987); to be canceled the installation of the trolleybus
system in such city, the vehicles were stored during several years with
their primitive livery, that preserved in Rosario during about two years
until its modification by ECOBÚS.
Photo:
Carlos A. Fernández.
In
1985, Martín Fierro company already was carrying six years operating
the trolleybus services in Rosario. For that then already had been
eliminated the electrical service in the "H" and "M" Routes, remaining
the scarce remaining units to the service of a deteriorated Route "K".
Here we observe one of the "electrical colectivos" (trolectivos) asemblied
in base to home-made bodyshells and endowed of electrical equipment withdrawn
from FIAT and MERCEDES-BENZ trolleybuses in the depot of Pellegrini Avenue
2850; few months after, the Municipality would expel of these facilities
to the Martin Fierro company, destining them for use of the Public Works
Secretariat. The dying trolleybuses operation of Martín Fierro
yet would have other seven years by before...
Photo:
Carlos A. Fernández
After
the shipment from 1958 of twenty-one units “M.A.N. / Kassböhrer /
Kiepe Elektrik” of "Transportes de Buenos Aires" and upon failing the shipment
of other batch of trolebuses of the same origin, the "Empresa de Transporte
de Rosario" bade the purchase of 40 new trolleybuses to destine them for
the new lines in construction. The Sociedad Argentina de Electrificación
(SADE) –also constructing of the fixed facilities of the system- earned
the check for the provision of the new cars. Consequently, from 1961
began to arrive the batches of trolleybuses “FIAT / Alfa-Romeo / CGE”.
The
photograph shows to the coach #1 -that in 1969 resulted totally burned
in the riots known as "El Rosariazo”- in the tests clue that the FIAT was
possessing in his plant of Torino, in the Italy north.
Photo:
ARAR Collection
The
interior of the new units was panoramic and very luminous, offering 43
comfortable seats and 52 places for standing passengers in greater demand
hours of the service. A ringer button among each top window, was
permitting the passengers to abandon their location only in the previous
moment to descend of the unit, giving time to be displaced until the double
and broad central door.
Photo:
ARAR Collection.
After
the privatization of the system in the middle of 1979, the concessionarie
Martín Fierro Company proceed to the reform and general repair of
the trolleybus FIAT / Alfa-Romeo / CGE #12. New front and new subsequent
part of the bodyshell (this last without rear glass window), new windows,
replacement of the external cover sheets and the total modification of
the interior of the unit, with coatings and seats of modern characteristic,
converted to the now coach #1 in amazement motive for own and strange.
The
set in regular service of the renewed unit was carried out on November
15, 1979 in the route "K" , but time after this coach alternatively did
run in the route "M" and in the fleetingly rehabilitated route "H".
The #1 was withdrawn of the service in 1984, after the suppression of the
trolleybuses in the route "M".
Photo:
Angel Ferrer.
During
nearly all their useful life, the municipal trolleybuses traveled by streets
with very deteriorated pavements, or well, very rustic. An example
of this was the stone pavements of Mendoza street, from Nicaragua street
until Ovidio Lagos avenue: the photo shows us the large cobbles by
where hardly marches the FIAT trolleybus #2 of the "K" route. Mendoza Street
was recovered with asphalt in 1981, therefore the two decades in which
the trolleybuses traveled for that and other arteries, constituted a hard
test that the Italian cars drew satisfactorily, putting in manifesto a
constructive quality in exception.
Photo:
Angel Ferrer
The
Mercedes-Benz/Kiepe Elektrik model O6600T trolleybuses of 1952-3 incorporated
by the Rosario Municipality from 1971. They did not fill the expectations
in what to yield and quality is referred. In contrast with the Italian
FIAT, the German cars were suffering breakdowns often; yet in those
units that they were acquired without previous use. The image exhibits
the #45 and 65 cars being relieved after a breakdown, in the intersection
of the Salta and Francia avenues, lending service in the "M" route (c.1976).
Photo:
Angel Ferrer
After
six continued years operation, the renewed "K" route continues lending
normally its services. The Brazilian-built trolleybuses have demonstrated
be reliable and the drawbacks in the fleet are not frequent. From
1998, the trolleybuses shine a livery determined by two tones of green,
that are complemented with the cream color that subsists of the original
plan with which arrived at Rosario. From 1999, the route cluster
was modified according to can be seen in the image, being its visualization
something difficult in night hours.
Photo:
Carlos Alberto Fernández
The
MAN trolleybuses were commited to begin the service in Rosario, from May
24th 1959. The image shows us the units enlisted to enter traffic
in the first “G” route. The livery was composed by green in the lower
part, cream in windows and aluminium line in the ceiling. A black
band registered in a molding that was surrounding all the bodyshell and
in the front was forming a "V", giving to him an unmistakable aspect to
the coaches.
Photo:
ARAR Collection.
However,
not all the MAN units acquired at once the colors of the Rosario company.
Many of them entered service exhibiting yet the aluminium with blue band
color livery with which were running in Buenos Aires. The photo shows
us to a trolleybus in the first times of the "H" route, inaugurated April
15th 1960, running in Corrientes Avenue northward, in front of Sarmiento
Square. In the upper part can deal the convergent rigid switch toward
San Luis street, employed for the return of the units.
Photo:
Mrs. María de Tossi Collection.
After
the wear originated for many years of service and the units destroyed during
the riots in 1969, very few MAN trolleybuses remained in service.
The coach #114 was the last to be employed in 1975, and were used what
is as replacement unit when was lacking some FIAT unit, mainly employed
on the services. The photo exhibits #114 running San Nicolás
street in the "M" route downtown-bound, and shines the similar livery to
that of rest of the fleet.
Photo:
Miguel D. Petruzzi.
The
Echesortu Quarter in Rosario is one of the most traditional of the city.
Carry his name in honor to Ciro Echesortu, ancient proprietary of the lands
that thereinafter they were sell to build the housings; and has their epicentre
in the intersection of Mendoza street with Boulevard Nicolás Avellaneda.
The
intensive railway presence, and the subsequent introduction of several
tramway lines caused that the zone had a rapid and prosperous development,
since was populated in large part by persons that was performed work in
the mentioned means of transportation. In the first decades of the
Twentieth Century, due to the fact that be moved toward the downtown area
was not frequent neither simple, Echesortu experienced the spontaneous
generation of an important commercial center whose gravitation reaches
until our days.
Various
establishments and institutions are characteristic of the place:
the already disappeared Cinema-Theatre "Palace Echesortu”;
the Provincial School Number 67 "Juan E. Pestalozzi”; the “Intendant
Carrasco” Hospital; the Santa Fe´s Provincial Bank; the "San
Francisco Solano” Parish, and the recalled "Association of Merchants
and Industrial of the Eighth Section" (ACISO).
Other
names and places form part of the patrimony more affectionate of the quarter
community: the sculptural vedettes and actresses and Norma and Mimí
Pons, born in Echesortu and successes in the stages of Buenos Aires;
and the "The Chapel" Coffee and Bar, the very last "Japanese coffee" surviving
in Rosario.
The
leafy trees and the continuous passing of the classic trolleybus they are
two unmistakeable images that characterizes a quarter in which the History
is his main inhabitant, maybe the most laborious of all...
Photo:
Mariano C. Antenore