Good news - I've found one of my "missing" cars.
Pittsburgh Railways 1772, a standard (for that city) 1700-series PCC built in 1949 and
noted as missing here, has popped up in an unlikely spot. It's been plinthed in Trinidad, Colorado at the entrance to a real estate development located at Commerical Street and the Purgatoire River. The above photo from
Flickr shows that the car has been painted garishly as a billboard for "The Americana Experience" which is evidently a planned trolley (i.e. bus) line somehow associated with the real estate development.
This car went to the Ohio Railway Museum in Worthington, Ohio in 1990 and left ORM in 2015 for parts unknown. Supposedly it went to Texas, and there's some evidence that it was resold around 2017, but until I find more specific information I'm just noting its ownership as switching to the company in Trinidad, Downtown Trinidad Development Group, in 2015. I'm glad to take this car off of the "missing" list.
As horrible as the paint scheme is, I'm glad she is still standing.
ReplyDeletePittsburgh 1772 was sold by Ozark Mountain Railcar to a Ford dealer in Colorado Springs in about June 2015. When they found how rusty it was in the back end they were going to sandblast it. Then they learned from me through the group in Colorado Springs that it has some asbestus in the heating ducts they just wanted to get rid of it.
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