Monday, December 26, 2022

List Clean-up

For the end of the year, I'm doing a bit of list clean-up. There are quite a few cars on the list whose status is uncertain, but there are three that I've decided to remove from the list because their current existence seems especially doubtful.

All three are PCCs. The first is Muni 1111, a PCC built in 1946 as St. Louis Public Service 1707. It was sold in 1994 to Gunnar Henrioulle, aka Tahoe Valley Lines PCC Railway, and was stored in Lake Tahoe until around 2007. Supposedly, that year it was sold to the City of Savannah, GA, and moved to Warren Railcar Services in Warren, PA, for conversion into a battery-powered heritage trolley. But there, the train goes cold - I've never seen a photo of it in Warren (or in Savannah, for that matter), and I haven't heard anything at all about the car in 15 years. Warren Railcar Services is long out of business and the Savannah heritage trolley was inaugurated (using a Melbourne car), ran for a while, and then ended. My best guess is that car 1111 was scrapped at some point. It's shown above, in a photo I believe was taken around 2006-2007, in Lake Tahoe; the two cars to the right were among the dozen or so that were sold to a developer in St. Charles, MO, with all of the PCCs being scrapped in 2011 after the developer went bust in the 2008 recession.

The other two PCC cars being taken off the PNAERC list are Tandy Subway rebuilds ("Winnebagos") of DC Transit 1945 air-electric PCC cars. Tandy cars 3 and 6 were supposedly acquired by Brookville Equipment Corporation in Pennsylvania, either as rebuild candidates or possibly as parts sources, and I believe they were indeed moved to Brookville. But I haven't seen any recent photos of them and they don't appear in current aerial views of the Brookville site. My guess is that they've been scrapped. UPDATE: Thanks to Wesley Paulson for confirming that these cars have, indeed, been scrapped by Brookville.

All three cars (EDIT: car 1111 only) qualify as "mystery cars" since I don't have any real confirmation that they were scrapped, so if you can contribute any information, it's much appreciated. Thank you!

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