Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Missing PCC car found

The above photo was recently posted online and appears to prove that a Shaker Heights PCC car, formerly "lost" for a number of years, is indeed still around and moldering away in rural Arkansas. The car in question is Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 47 and it has now been added to the PNAERC list as being under private ownership. For years this car has been on my "mysteries" list, as the last I had heard of it, it was being traded to someone in Arkansas by National Capital in 1987 for DC Transit 1540. It's one of ten PCC cars that Shaker Heights acquired from St. Louis Public Service (this car was SLPS 1773) and joins two others of the series, both owned by Buckeye Lake Trolley, in "preservation."

EDIT: The reputed owner of this car, Jim Cates, died in August 2020 according to this obituary. At this point the current status, and certainly the outlook for car 47 is uncertain at best.

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