James A. Genthner, founding member of the Baltimore Streetcar Museum, dies

James A. Genthner, whose lifelong love for the clanging bells and electric hum of streetcars, the hiss of gaslights and the distant melodic whistles of trains as they rolled through the night, died of a heart attack July 23 at his Timonium home. He was 80. “Jim was a true Baltimorean and true Marylander all his life,” his boyhood friend, Fred Stiner, wrote in his eulogy. “He was born in Baltimore, went to school in Baltimore, married in Baltimore and lived in the Baltimore area his entire life.” James Anthony...