NOPSI 924 becomes NORTA 450 #StreetcarSaturday

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NOPSI 924 came home as NORTA 450 on the Riverfront line. NOPSI 924 From my book, New Orleans: The Canal Streetcar Line (2004), NOPSI 924 sits at Carrollton Station. The streetcar operated on the Riverfront line until 1997. The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (NORTA) numbered it 450. They retired 450 when the line was expanded. A group called Bring Our Streetcars Home acquired the streetcar in 1988. They gave it to NORTA. The transit authority refurbished the car. They painted it red and yellow. Riverfront service NORTA established the first new streetcar line in New Orleans in a century...