This isn't directly applicable to the PNAERC list, but Bill Wall from Branford sent this along and it was too curious not to share. It's the faux end of a New York subway car, built to replicate an R-17 type car. Branford's car 6688, of this type, was recently sent out for some movie shoot work, and when it returned to East Haven it was accompanied by this thing. Bill calls this "6688 and one-eighth."
I'm not formally tracking car ends, of course, but from memory I can think of a handful that are at trolley museums. This car end (which I believe is not an actual subway car end) is joined at Branford by a Lake Shore Electric interurban car end (also, I believe, a re-creation) displayed in Sprague. Seashore has its own interurban car end (which may be an authentic one) as well as the front end of a Boston "Type 6" prototype streetcar. PTM used to have the front end of a Pittsburgh PCC attached to the wall of its barn, though I'm not sure where it is now, and IRM has a pair of Illinois Terminal interurban car ends (not on display) built by the IT as spares to use as wreck replacements. Jackson Street Roundhouse in Saint Paul, MN also used to have a Twin City car end as a display piece but I think it's gone now. What am I missing?
If I'm remembering correctly, TMNY in Kingston had a Brooklyn 6000.
ReplyDeleteThe faux Lake Shore Electric end from Shore Line is now at Pennsylvania Trolley Museum where it will be *restored* as a faux Pittsburgh Railways Company 3600 series interurban. On the back side will be PTM's you-can-run-a-trolley simulator.
ReplyDeleteNational Capital Trolley Museum retains the front and rear sections of Capital Transit 1053 (ST Louis 1935). The car was a pre-PCC design incorporating many PCC features. Sadly, CTCo 1053 was destroyed in the 2003 fire.
ReplyDeleteFrank, don't we have the TM streetcar training simulator with a car end, or was it just the guts?
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