Birthday Trip to Canada - High Level Bridge Streetcar in Edmonton

The sun came out for our streetcar trip. We took the High Level Bridge Streetcar from Whyte Avenue to the Capitol building area. We got to ride in car "Osaka 247"... from the Edmonton Radial Railway Society:

"Osaka 247
1921 (rebuilt in 1945)
Hankai Electric Railway (Osaka) No. 247 was built in 1921 by Umebachi/Sharyo. Rebuilt in 1947, it remained in service in Osaka until 1990, when it was acquired for spare parts by the Edmonton Radial Railway Society. However, it arrived in such excellent condition that the plans were revised and the car kept for the future High Level Bridge Line. It saw first service in 1995 with the help of a generator trailer and finally made the first trip across the High Level Bridge under overhead lines in 1997. For many years, Osaka 247 was the only streetcar on this line and it has served our society extremely well.

We got off aty the Government Center stop - 1) to find an ATM. We did not have cash for our streetcar ticket and the conductor graciously let us take an IOU for the return trip. 2) wander around and see the plaza.

 
Big rabbit pretending to be a rock.

 

 

 

 

 

 
Time to find the ATM before we get too busy with pictures, since we only had about an hour before the streetcar would be on its return trip.

 

 
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Hello to the big jackrabbit, who is still hanging around the train station.

 

 

Back to the streetcar, heading back toWhyte Ave:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Last updated 22Jun2025