A couple of updates have been made to cars on the PNAERC list. First, courtesy of an
HRA end-of-year roundup comes news that
South Shore 106 in Boone, Iowa has been returned to operation for the first time in some two decades. The car had formerly been listed as "displayed inoperable" but this has been suitably updated. This brings to three the number of museums with operational South Shore cars; of the other two, IRM (like Boone) runs its using the original pantographs while East Troy runs its cars much more frequently using retrofitted trolley poles for ease of operation.
And via e-mail Walt Stafa points out that
West Penn 832's listing has been perpetrating a falsehood, namely that the car's trucks are Brill 76E2's, which they are not. Oops!! They're actually a Cincinnati design, probably unique to this order, for which I cannot find an official designation. So lacking better information I'm calling them Cincinnati Arch Bars.
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