Last Ride on the No. 8

Streetcars had been running on the streets of Baltimore for 104 years, when the decision was made by the city fathers to replace them with busses. The last streetcar run was the 4:40 a.m. on the morning of November 4, 1963 - the Number Eight, Towson to Catonsville. Souvenir hunters crowded aboard for the last ride, and at the end of the line, at 5:25 a.m., all disembarked - and all took souvenirs of the car with them - signal cords, window frames, light fixtures. This is the story of the last souvenir of the last ride of the last run of the last streetcar to run in Baltimore.