NYCTA cars added to list

It was pointed out to me that a pair of NYCTA type R32 subway cars, cars 3350 and 3351, have been missing from the PNAERC list even though they're part of the New York Transit Museum collection and stored with the NYCTA historic fleet at Coney Island Yard. Many thanks to Bill Wall for correcting my earlier erroneous information that these cars were owned by Railway Preservation Corporation!

As you may have guessed from the links, these cars have now been added to the list. They were built by Budd in 1964 and make up a married-pair set. They're known as "phase II" R32's following a major rebuild in the late 1980s. A bunch of R32's remained in service until about a year ago (later than expected due to issues with newly-delivered replacement cars) which is an awfully impressive service life. I'm not sure when 3350 and 3351 were assigned to the NYTM but Bill commented that it was some time after 2008, the year the other preserved set of R32's - identical pair 3352 and 3353 - were transferred to the museum collection.

And in unrelated news, I've been able to update a bit of information about a car at the Illinois Railway Museum. The only unidentified (as in, unknown fleet number) car in the IRM collection was a 1913 streetcar body from Tri City Railway & Light in Rock Island, IL. That's no longer the case and the car has been IDed as TCR&L 483, part of the 451-485 series constructed by American. It is the only known streetcar from Rock Island to survive. Its PNAERC record has been updated to add its fleet number. (The photo above, taken by yours truly in 2001 when this car was unloaded at IRM, is the only picture I've ever seen of it at IRM before it was hurriedly tarped.)