The 1919 Birney streetcar is the only known car left from the Seattle streetcar system.

Fort Collins Municipal Railway Birney car 21, built in 1919

The design was named the " Safety Car ", and became known as the " Birney Safety Car " and ultimately simply as the " Birney " car.

Birney safety car, typical interior

The streetcar companies also found that the safety features of the Birney, such as the use of interlocked doors to prevent the car from starting if a door was open or a passenger was stuck, could be incorporated in larger cars and that the public was not as disturbed by the absence of the conductor as the companies had feared.

A longer, double-truck version of the Birney car was developed in the 1920s, incorporating its most successful features, and was sold to a number of systems, including that of Tampa, Florida.

Its initial rise and fall notwithstanding, the Birney car was useful and durable, and many were shipped to streetcar systems in other countries, especially ones located in smaller cities and towns, where they served for additional decades.

Sacramento Northern Birney car 62 at the Western Railway Museum, Rio Vista, California

) has one fully restored Birney car.

In New Zealand, New Plymouth Birney No. 8 is preserved by the Wanganui Tramways Trust, in Wanganui, and Invercargill Birney car No. 15 is preserved by the Tramway Historical Society at the Ferrymead Heritage Park, located at Ferrymead in Christchurch.

In the United States, the Gomaco Trolley Company has built at least 18 replica Birney cars, in the style of the less-common double-truck Birney car design, since 1999.

Gomaco also restored an original single-truck Birney car body in 2002 – 3 for the Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District in Fresno, California ; this was intended for static display in a local park.

The system has eleven operating streetcars: nine modern replica double-truck Birney cars, one restored original Birney car, and one replica open-bench " Breezer ".

The TRC never had a steel car, but by 1921, the city-operated Toronto Civic Railways had both single and double truck steel cars, including the standardized Birney Car.

The Birney car used a trolley pole, while the Japanese car used a pantograph, as it had on its home system.

Before entering service, Birney car 10 was repainted from PE colors into the old livery of the former Tucson streetcar system, whose fleet had included an ex-Douglas, Arizona, Birney car of the same type, which was in service until the abandonment of the old Tucson system in 1930.

In the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles ( 1976 ), he was portrayed by David Birney, William Daniels, Marcel Trenchard, Stephen Austin, Steven Grover and Mark Winkworth.

Charles Taze Russell was born to Scottish-Irish parents, immigrant Joseph Lytel () Russell ( d. December 17, 1897 ) and Ann Eliza Birney ( d. January 25, 1861 ), on February 16, 1852 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA.

In 1836, he joined James G. Birney in the editorial control of the Philanthropist ; in the following year he succeeded Birney as editor, and conducted the paper until 1847 in spite of threats and acts of violence – the printing office of the Philanthropist was wrecked three times by mobs.

At a time when public opinion in Cincinnati was dominated by Southern business connections, Chase, influenced by local events, including the attack on the press of James G. Birney during the Cincinnati Riots of 1836, associated himself with the anti-slavery movement.

The area was known as " West Chateaugay ," and was proposed to be the " Town of Birney ," but the name Burke was selected instead.

Kearns was born in Nelson, British Columbia, and attended the University of British Columbia, where he was a student of Earle Birney.

James Gillespie Birney ( February 4, 1792 – November 25, 1857 ) was an abolitionist, politician and jurist born in Danville, Kentucky.

When Birney turned eleven he was sent to Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, returning home two years later to enter a school run by a Presbyterian man that had just opened in Dansville.

It should be said that later in life Birney was known to say on many occasions that he does not recall ever believing that slavery was right.

Birney staunchly opposed this resolution and it was defeated, though a new resolution was soon after drafted and passed, despite Birney's opposition yet again.

The first meeting was held in Marietta, Georgia by Alice McLellen Birney at Marietta High School.

Upon the death of X Corps commander David B. Birney in October, Terry briefly assumed command of the corps before it was dissolved.

In the 2008 motion picture Changeling, the part of Mayor George Cryer was played by Reed Birney.

By 1952, Frye was calling Pratt one of " Canada's two leading poets " ( the other being Earle Birney ).

The series was canceled after one season, but her co-star, David Birney became her second husband in 1974.

In 1867, during Reconstruction, Lieutenant Birney of the Freedman's Bureau was placed in charge of a multiple murder investigation focused on the outlawed Lowrie gang.

A Birney or Birney Safety Car is a type of streetcar that was manufactured in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s.

Production of Birney cars lasted from 1915 until 1930, and more than 6, 000 of the original, single-truck version were built.

Famous members included Theodore Dwight Weld, Lewis Tappan, James G. Birney, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Abby Kelley Foster, Stephen Symonds Foster, Henry Highland Garnet, Samuel Cornish, James Forten, Charles Lenox Remond, Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Robert Purvis, and Wendell Phillips.

She starred with Annette O ' Toole and Meredith Baxter Birney in Vanities ( 1981 ), a television production of the comedy-drama stage play about the lives, loves and friendship of three Texas cheerleaders starting from high school to post-college graduation ; it aired as a part of Standing Room Only, a series on the premium-television channel HBO.

but won New York, where Clay lost votes to the antislavery Liberty Party candidate James G. Birney.

Liberty Party candidate James G. Birney won slightly more than 15, 000 votes in New York and likely attracted votes that might have gone to Clay.

* II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, including the divisions of Maj. Gen. David B. Birney and Brig.

* II Corps, under Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock, including the divisions of Maj. Gen. David B. Birney and Brig.

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Birney is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Rosebud County, Montana, United States.

Birney is located on Tongue River Road near the Tongue River, about northeast of Sheridan, Wyoming.