Friday, January 17, 2020

Muni PCC scrapped

I happened upon information stating that Muni 1121, an ex-St. Louis Public Service PCC car, was cut up sometime within the last year or so. As such it's been removed from the PNAERC list. The car, shown above, was built in 1946 as SLPS 1713 and ran in that city until it was sold to San Francisco in 1957. There it ran into the early 1980s and, according to my scant records, was sold by Muni in 1988. I'm not sure to whom it was sold, but by the mid-2000s it had surfaced in the collection of Old Pueblo Trolley in Tucson, Arizona where it was kept at their East 18th Street storage yard amidst a collection of mostly buses. OPT had to vacate that location recently, though, and while most of their streetcars were moved to a new indoor facility in South Tucson, car 1121 was not an accessed part of their collection and was not worth moving. After several years of the car being available to other museums, with no takers, it was scrapped. It is not a significant historic loss, as there are a lot of these ex-SLPS 1700s still around including one that has been completely restored to original condition.

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