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Scranton’s nickname, “Electric City,” stems from its being one of the first places in the U.S. to have electric streetcars.

The commuters in “Le Métro” hark back to his early streetcar scenes but now there’s an air of mystery to the straphangers, with the central figure’s face obscured and bisected by a subway pole.

Both have done away with them, leaving Kolkata as the only Indian city to hold onto the trundling streetcars.

An-My, you chose Robert Frank’s picture of a streetcar in New Orleans, taken that year.

He still lives in Seattle, consults for transportation clients, and joined the board of a company that locates underground utility obstacles, like those which delayed the new Tacoma Link Hilltop Extension streetcar.