Thursday, August 2, 2018

Another PCC located

What once was lost, now is found. I stumbled across a couple of photos taken in 2015 of TTC 4434, a PCC car which I had thought was scrapped back around 2011. It seems to have joined a motley collection of railway and other equipment on private land just south of Langford, New York, which is about 20 miles south of Buffalo in rural western New York. The car even shows up on a Google Street View image from 2011, keeping company with a few cabooses and freight cars.

Car 4434 is a pretty standard Toronto PCC car, built by St. Louis in 1949 as one of 100 class A-7 cars. It was retired sometime during the 1980s, though I'm not sure precisely when, and at some point made its way to Springville, New York - near its current site in Langford - where it was turned into an ice cream stand called "A Streetcar Named Dessert." This apparently went out of business during the recession; around 2010 or 2011 the car was removed, as described at this website, and thought to be scrapped.

Well, apparently that wasn't the case. As of two or three years ago, at least, it's on private property and evidently being preserved along with other assorted items. So it's back on the list.

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