According to a post today on the El Paso Streetcar Facebook page (no log-in required), the fourth El Paso PCC car to be rebuilt by Brookville is en route back home and should arrive within the next day or two. This arrival is car 1514, like the other El Paso PCC cars a 1937 St. Louis product originally built for the San Diego Electric Railway and bought by El Paso in 1950. Its owner has been changed to Sun Metro, which will operate the yet-to-open heritage streetcar line in El Paso, and no-longer-correct information on the car's trucks, motors, control, weight, and height have been removed. I'm still looking for any information on what equipment these Brookville rebuilds do have but I believe it's the same equipment being fitted to PCC cars being rebuilt for Muni.
Car 1514 also has a slightly interesting history. A published roster I initially used to record which SDER cars became which El Paso cars stated that 1514 was ex-SDER 523 while sister El Paso car 1513, which is not among the cars being rebuilt by Brookville and is currently stored semi-derelict at the El Paso airport, was ex-SDER 520. However a few years back Karl Johnson sent me some photos of the El Paso cars which showed pretty conclusively that car 1513 was actually ex-SDER 523. That being the case, I'm guessing that car 1514 may have been ex-520 and that the two cars' numbers were simply transposed, but I don't know for certain.
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