Friday, November 9, 2018

PCC on the move

The above photo, taken by Joe Krepps, was posted on the "Railroads of York, PA" group on Facebook yesterday. The car in the picture, New Jersey Transit 24, was heading westbound through York. This brings up an interesting question: where is it going?

Car 24 is one of the few "orphans" left among the old Newark PCC fleet. Of the 25 preserved PCC cars from that system, 11 went to Muni, eight went to established trolley museums, one went to San Diego, and one was kept by NJT for historic purposes, leaving four in a state of limbo to one extent or another. Car 13 is stored in Boonton, close to home; two others are stored in an out-of-state location; and that leaves car 24, which until yesterday (apparently) was stored at UTC/RAS, a small industrial firm in the Philadelphia suburbs. I had formerly thought that the car was destined for San Diego but it's not certain that's the case. Anyone know where it's going? Until I can answer that I've changed its status to "unknown."

UPDATE: Mystery solved, more or less - in mid-2020 car 24 turned up in Signal Hill, California.

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