Monday, December 11, 2017

Lewistown & Reedsville car moved

A recent visit to central Pennsylvania allowed me to confirm something that I had suspected, namely that the last surviving Lewistown & Reedsville car has indeed been retrieved from its former location in McVeystown, Pennsylvania and relocated at the Middletown & Hummelstown (thanks to Joel Salomon for the information). The car has been owned by the M&H for a number of years but it wasn't until recently that it was moved there. I'm not sure precisely when it was moved, unfortunately.

This is a fairly historic car; it ran briefly in New Jersey, a state from which there are very few interurban/suburban cars preserved. For most of its service life it operated on the L&R so it's a similarly rare example of a survivor from a small-town Pennsylvania street railway. Even its design is unusual. Its record has been updated to reflect that it's no longer stored off-site by the M&H.

UPDATE: Joel Salomon writes to confirm that this car's number is definitely L&R 23. He has also sent a Brill Magazine article about these cars which is extremely fascinating. It includes truck type (Brill 27MCB2) and dimensional and weight information on these cars. Unfortunately there's no control/motor information but that may turn up. The information in the article has been added to car 23's listing on the PNAERC site.

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