Back in November,
it was reported here that two cars from the Middletown & Hummelstown were headed to the Rockhill Trolley Museum. Those cars both headed to Rockhill Furnace today and were unloaded this afternoon. Thanks to Joel Salomon of RTM for the photos and update! The first car, shown above after being un-tarped, is
Lewistown & Reedsville 23, a unique and historically significant center-entrance car that ran most of its service life very close to Rockhill Furnace. The second car, shown below on the Silk Road trailer, is
York Railways 162. This is a Brill-built curve-sider identical to
car 163, already restored and operational at RTM, and the museum evidently intends to preserve car 162 as a house to depict post-service uses of electric car bodies.
With this transfer, the collections of both RTM and M&H stand at 22 cars on the PNAERC list. The M&H collection will continue to shrink, though; a few of the basket cases are intended for scrapping, while some other cars will likely go to new homes at other trolley museums.
Thanks for the update, Frank. Would you know the type of shop trucks these cars are sitting on? Seems they may be of as much value as the cars to Rockhill.
ReplyDeleteThe Lewistown car is sitting on the Philadelphia & Western "pickle car" trucks for deicing the 3rrd rail think it was flatcar 406. The York car was on the trucks from the M&H and they could be available for trade in the future.
DeleteThe L&R car was on cribbing in Middletown, so RTM has placed it on arch bar trucks they had that I believe are from a Philadelphia & Western work flat. The York car looks like it’s on Brooklyn el car trailer trucks.
ReplyDeleteJoel Salomon said “We've been told it's a Peckham 36b” under the York car body.
DeleteI have a drawing of no. 23 on the tracks in Reedsville at the bottom of Station Hill.
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