Car 706 is maneuvering carefully around the rubble of the disastrous fire of August 21, 1909 on its way from N. Main to E. Main.  The two photos are not the same, though they seem to have been made by the same photographer just a few moments apart.  (Some of the people in the street have changed position, and the point of view has shifted slightly to the right.)  The lettering across the second photo dates the pictures to the day after the fire.  The view is to the northeast.

The 706 is one of the steel cars delivered to ITS in January 1908 by the Danville Car Co. and assigned as needed to various ITS city systems.  The car is barely a year and a half old, and is seen in its original form.