tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49987470046795897382024-03-25T23:22:20.498-05:00Preserved TractionNews and Updates to the Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars (PNAERC) ListFrank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.comBlogger452125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-62241274717162520012024-03-25T23:21:00.001-05:002024-03-25T23:21:46.786-05:00Philadelphia Car Heading WestThanks to Bill Wulfert, who has passed along the news that <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=242" target="_blank">Philadelphia Rapid Transit 2282</a></b> has been acquired by the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum from the Electric City Trolley Museum.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7nVIpZNXVhIgdLrzYiqQWpjDfmSS1Vp-cbYFm9EOpldHzldaS8jCnLk4YSoDBvKsZobIiylvh7hlNm_oZs1zURFlB5-xoFA0Tl72JCtN7QArH4__FlV2n2yiIVyxT0j2WstmqBvXptuPFC8Bp9m8fCBozp7xDKHOBOLtLejYHXF0IBGNcyr4k1ts4P9e/s640/prt2282.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr7nVIpZNXVhIgdLrzYiqQWpjDfmSS1Vp-cbYFm9EOpldHzldaS8jCnLk4YSoDBvKsZobIiylvh7hlNm_oZs1zURFlB5-xoFA0Tl72JCtN7QArH4__FlV2n2yiIVyxT0j2WstmqBvXptuPFC8Bp9m8fCBozp7xDKHOBOLtLejYHXF0IBGNcyr4k1ts4P9e/w200-h150/prt2282.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Car 2282 is in rough shape but it's extremely historic. It's the oldest double-truck streetcar, and the second-oldest streetcar (after <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2024/02/jersey-shore-streetcar-threatened.html">this one</a></b>, which is in imminent danger of demolition), from Philadelphia in existence. It was built by Brill in 1906 and when retired in 1928 it went to the Shamokin & Edgewood Electric, where it finished out its career 10 years later. The car has been through a few owners in the preservation era: it was at Magee until Hurricane Agnes did in that organization, then it was owned by Ed Blossom for a few decades before his collection went to ECTM in Scranton around 2000. In recent years, it's been stored in ECTM's barn in Moosic. I haven't updated the car's PNAERC record yet - I always do that when the car physically moves, and as far as I know, it's still in Scranton for the moment. But it's good to see that the car is going to another good home at PTM and that ECTM will have a spot open up for something else to be stored inside.</div><div><br /></div><div>As for the museums involved, PTM has been on a bit of an acquisition spree lately in the wake of acquiring a new storage building along their line. This will be their third acquisition in the last couple of years, after <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/08/brill-semi-convertible-acquired-by-ptm.html">Shamokin & Mt. Carmel 33</a></b> and <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-terrible-acquisition.html">Port Authority Transit 1713</a></b>. For ECTM, this is their second deaccession in the last few years, after <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2019/09/cars-on-move.html">Chicago Aurora & Elgin 453</a></b>. The museum doesn't really have any space to expand, nor anywhere to store cars outdoors, so if they want to acquire a new piece of equipment they need to get rid of something they have.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-61350689356320963712024-03-21T23:41:00.002-05:002024-03-21T23:41:19.471-05:00Another Postcard from KennebunkportBill Wulfert has sent more photos from Winterfest, held this past weekend at the Seashore Trolley Museum, with this batch including many of Seashore's more commonly photographed pieces. Enjoy!<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the denizens of Town House Shop at Seashore is <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1610" target="_blank">Bay State Street Railway 4175</a>, an attractive semiconvertible built in 1914 by Laconia that later ran in Rhode Island and New Jersey. This car was the prototype for the replica that operates today in Lowell, Mass.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5IBUiwehwwzoMO_pVOdB5V-RXM_gc3yiForbMfrFMbMz1YOsooQwTUa4rimQoKfE0piUxPFWqsRmYfHEwn-3pD8AZxA6DwHcY_RTtFlakNjP6FOMgIoFoEmwgp63vDHo98qSl4iosOn1Yj-Z5S0xBq_Pp7by2-HefPjsUiyjVVBe-W0uMlaoJK4cH9mG/s640/bssr4175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5IBUiwehwwzoMO_pVOdB5V-RXM_gc3yiForbMfrFMbMz1YOsooQwTUa4rimQoKfE0piUxPFWqsRmYfHEwn-3pD8AZxA6DwHcY_RTtFlakNjP6FOMgIoFoEmwgp63vDHo98qSl4iosOn1Yj-Z5S0xBq_Pp7by2-HefPjsUiyjVVBe-W0uMlaoJK4cH9mG/w150-h200/bssr4175.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the cars in operation over the weekend was <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=612" target="_blank">Claremont Railway 4</a>, the museum's diminutive line car.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOG5fJkk1v-P4AVmCncbeSq_rHwLVUGzYo39ptMB-iYcjAZFT9cD883LiFCsUsCbY6JwBO6y1a1Uj5uuOcMrDb2mBuvizHBI_8_SYGffXTCpY8JahJi_WBOlgQFia3iRZEayK_m0i1OmiFxj2d2NpzAaFGh14KYt6Z8Q7pKUuUi08Tc4qa9kyTdZzKcK6/s640/claremont4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZOG5fJkk1v-P4AVmCncbeSq_rHwLVUGzYo39ptMB-iYcjAZFT9cD883LiFCsUsCbY6JwBO6y1a1Uj5uuOcMrDb2mBuvizHBI_8_SYGffXTCpY8JahJi_WBOlgQFia3iRZEayK_m0i1OmiFxj2d2NpzAaFGh14KYt6Z8Q7pKUuUi08Tc4qa9kyTdZzKcK6/w150-h200/claremont4.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of three North Shore Line interurban cars at Seashore, <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=522" target="_blank">car 420</a> was built in 1928 as an open-platform observation car and later converted to a double-ended coach. It is currently out of service with a failed traction motor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rl-T3_1Aq06vjPu29tLV3ibCJxRsaRR__yrxuwsD-76ya0vdT8GAGV-PokkHkfH52JWqaM1_FvfU8i1O5XFj14hK3srAXaafQjgGFjaOivzghCV6pszajbSUlecksjaxaGK-562wkBSdkt3DAi184_Sq_8dRejjTvsf-X7uQIr2BO39sJxl_lFr_bn8h/s640/cnsm420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rl-T3_1Aq06vjPu29tLV3ibCJxRsaRR__yrxuwsD-76ya0vdT8GAGV-PokkHkfH52JWqaM1_FvfU8i1O5XFj14hK3srAXaafQjgGFjaOivzghCV6pszajbSUlecksjaxaGK-562wkBSdkt3DAi184_Sq_8dRejjTvsf-X7uQIr2BO39sJxl_lFr_bn8h/w200-h150/cnsm420.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fellow Highwood alum NSL 755 is a 1930 Standard product, shown here in both an exterior and an interior view.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSQ0_IkvULPxNARWHeyN0Otg6MAXpwa7nLT4pKKEWAGe_g3FpVBzJgZ9lzLCyttLDwywVqGnYNCU3Mu-J8Vg-cbgbojeGoGAxkUjcn13je6FX85nZT8YRcL0bIb-jRQ8fIXrTN3UQY4WAfeIqFTK6bZY5A1KC1CJHGZRyAieF89qyMotgPouto7sah0LL/s640/cnsm755.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicSQ0_IkvULPxNARWHeyN0Otg6MAXpwa7nLT4pKKEWAGe_g3FpVBzJgZ9lzLCyttLDwywVqGnYNCU3Mu-J8Vg-cbgbojeGoGAxkUjcn13je6FX85nZT8YRcL0bIb-jRQ8fIXrTN3UQY4WAfeIqFTK6bZY5A1KC1CJHGZRyAieF89qyMotgPouto7sah0LL/w150-h200/cnsm755.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgWCuf5OAKqKAldljGXHhxAKIWsiYvjv1pUd10yNZgZEZ_a4_F6x9vT6VCVxxTtTNWi_wuYzhN5Y2ZWEiDdc1MQEVNwcqp9PXXWWKSgJMpoRmtozJZpOWr4er9ecABBVskTA9qcykpxegBbQ5PNKAya4oYMdgzw4up9i3Y42XHpgOkQpI_ZWdQ9AfvYs_/s640/cnsm755int.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFgWCuf5OAKqKAldljGXHhxAKIWsiYvjv1pUd10yNZgZEZ_a4_F6x9vT6VCVxxTtTNWi_wuYzhN5Y2ZWEiDdc1MQEVNwcqp9PXXWWKSgJMpoRmtozJZpOWr4er9ecABBVskTA9qcykpxegBbQ5PNKAya4oYMdgzw4up9i3Y42XHpgOkQpI_ZWdQ9AfvYs_/w150-h200/cnsm755int.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1300" target="_blank">Connecticut Company open car 303</a> was built by Brill in 1901 for the Winchester Avenue Railway. It's shown in Seashore's brand-new South Boston carbarn, a beautiful three-track, nine-berth structure that was just completed within the past few months.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmbFaOSZBSTQajZKZ21skjHxOQGYL2ZLtFlTYrvnBUrm48Fdo3w1LsTbyBljP5mIEhPnosIreJ_FAgZ0X6r4eKrErYV-8QBf4kDn1l-lJoZgolggN9xZtgqN0oyzarbaliQFA5TsHOuVBroD80mwh3jTJuMHocflcug58hFwxbOIL-9VLsPQ6L5RruMAS/s640/conn303.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmbFaOSZBSTQajZKZ21skjHxOQGYL2ZLtFlTYrvnBUrm48Fdo3w1LsTbyBljP5mIEhPnosIreJ_FAgZ0X6r4eKrErYV-8QBf4kDn1l-lJoZgolggN9xZtgqN0oyzarbaliQFA5TsHOuVBroD80mwh3jTJuMHocflcug58hFwxbOIL-9VLsPQ6L5RruMAS/w200-h150/conn303.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of Seashore's regular service stalwarts is <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1456" target="_blank">ConnCo 1160</a>, shown here, a 1906 Stephenson suburban car that was completely restored by the museum. It's one of only nine Stephenson cars preserved and one of just four in operation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2GY_JOI7g4FboGEo4nmXKiq6uewoTOBEUmnN7HonVDmoIugqxur1HCLws9Aqic03SmvoB8QKaTAYd_FyMh5x391D0PrpNacsSzRtgqhRPyJN9mLwjStIAnlVNaBhpYr8EebjEr_E6ovbq0CyIKAhYPR4-uDr_Sw_48YjTlmSXylQg2l1OPh6lbf0zxyz/s640/conn1160.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl2GY_JOI7g4FboGEo4nmXKiq6uewoTOBEUmnN7HonVDmoIugqxur1HCLws9Aqic03SmvoB8QKaTAYd_FyMh5x391D0PrpNacsSzRtgqhRPyJN9mLwjStIAnlVNaBhpYr8EebjEr_E6ovbq0CyIKAhYPR4-uDr_Sw_48YjTlmSXylQg2l1OPh6lbf0zxyz/w200-h150/conn1160.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The next two images show <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1466" target="_blank">Cleveland Railway 1227</a>, which was one of the most recently completed of Seashore's famous frame-up restorations. Not only was this car received as a basket case, but it had been rebuilt by Shaker Heights Rapid Transit. Seashore did a lot of work to backdate it to its condition in the late 1910s.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT97CmCHzcdTzX1d7NKsRMtBVCrDPCckHn1gPWvKXS7X2h2WYQflMcskLo4UtfGmUje2PKJHFU8LasMDgq-UYn1Ly0kMn-HdBthW5KGBzTuqzI1wgAw5VR5wuvXr6fi36WE0ZKF4YP0SS81sY43HT0wQgdUI588Zmt38u7Aarwdp9ox2v1zF8NxgD4jtw/s640/crys1227.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmT97CmCHzcdTzX1d7NKsRMtBVCrDPCckHn1gPWvKXS7X2h2WYQflMcskLo4UtfGmUje2PKJHFU8LasMDgq-UYn1Ly0kMn-HdBthW5KGBzTuqzI1wgAw5VR5wuvXr6fi36WE0ZKF4YP0SS81sY43HT0wQgdUI588Zmt38u7Aarwdp9ox2v1zF8NxgD4jtw/w200-h150/crys1227.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-SU5lScumAc6HyhO7hQuOhLydEp5FyhTxz858NOmJja1CBawx5Sa5SyJDwYW-r2zduW8E84zIWygbw-aoXTONtn0-k2C2BqfFU0Ef6VLX3pu60HyxqHAZOD0ojbE4piYVue2FgJ1oqreFP2FswZrZpGfEjdfbFvoUZRkWyg7EkzRtDXAR7M2bQt4T6oF/s640/crys1227a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE-SU5lScumAc6HyhO7hQuOhLydEp5FyhTxz858NOmJja1CBawx5Sa5SyJDwYW-r2zduW8E84zIWygbw-aoXTONtn0-k2C2BqfFU0Ef6VLX3pu60HyxqHAZOD0ojbE4piYVue2FgJ1oqreFP2FswZrZpGfEjdfbFvoUZRkWyg7EkzRtDXAR7M2bQt4T6oF/w200-h150/crys1227a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are three Chicago "Big Pullmans" preserved, and the only one not at IRM is <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1287" target="_blank">CSL 225</a>. It's currently out of service with a failed motor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZV8kJ9aEz-advjfcDuDQAezmXnRqVHzOS-VcxjYNUdqZPyAB-pSqdLIBITrU-4lRwRD50exkYpM0mqaCsnkDGyA-WPo2epFwRahNLMuwv47lfF2L2vbozXCfcnd-AF-hIUwqtfk1hWdyMjzlL2UGmER7uEBZQR3ytC-ALAOFpDp7borR3Mlp2oq6OX7i/s640/csl225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwZV8kJ9aEz-advjfcDuDQAezmXnRqVHzOS-VcxjYNUdqZPyAB-pSqdLIBITrU-4lRwRD50exkYpM0mqaCsnkDGyA-WPo2epFwRahNLMuwv47lfF2L2vbozXCfcnd-AF-hIUwqtfk1hWdyMjzlL2UGmER7uEBZQR3ytC-ALAOFpDp7borR3Mlp2oq6OX7i/w200-h150/csl225.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBj9qet_10jzfevXQp0L5t-14YuuLzOqoFh_1MOXIhnGXSK6eLWkRrc5SH2QNdqYnfKDHTanDofWpQCwZzXfsdvRo1ThAVs8iR1phnw3evjJ5GJaoIb9rqQF164Dlany01Y6Hr7LpGhMECv5qoLXxtNwuURKMHhvzx6S_9nb4-lO_8EtmjqNB0_hT2Ma7/s640/csl225int.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBj9qet_10jzfevXQp0L5t-14YuuLzOqoFh_1MOXIhnGXSK6eLWkRrc5SH2QNdqYnfKDHTanDofWpQCwZzXfsdvRo1ThAVs8iR1phnw3evjJ5GJaoIb9rqQF164Dlany01Y6Hr7LpGhMECv5qoLXxtNwuURKMHhvzx6S_9nb4-lO_8EtmjqNB0_hT2Ma7/w150-h200/csl225int.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=769" target="_blank">Chicago Transit Authority 1</a> was used as a propulsion equipment test car by General Electric after it was retired by the CTA. <a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/10/more-on-deaccession-list.html">It's currently available.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi8NZObSKuCAENSQEBgtE2mwnUA_h3nKibzkESQ-cecgJn3ogw7iSZKwL-FCixjmPENhh_vKLDGHRvl7K8KgraLMNO0ddK0TG0sjK9RqILNNxcgm1uj1UT7aIX2YiCvoUWt5vrkMPFhrr0ZIJFL_zjICQkZ6mFa6kwO8QJWNl_Af1lz_M9pO_CWWfIWm4K/s640/cta1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi8NZObSKuCAENSQEBgtE2mwnUA_h3nKibzkESQ-cecgJn3ogw7iSZKwL-FCixjmPENhh_vKLDGHRvl7K8KgraLMNO0ddK0TG0sjK9RqILNNxcgm1uj1UT7aIX2YiCvoUWt5vrkMPFhrr0ZIJFL_zjICQkZ6mFa6kwO8QJWNl_Af1lz_M9pO_CWWfIWm4K/w200-h150/cta1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1470" target="_blank">DC Transit 1304</a> is a beautifully restored prewar PCC from the nation's capital. It's shown in the new South Boston carbarn. Unfortunately, at the moment it is out of service with a bad MG set.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMVyK-W_TVtAeWIfUGQBjbqgTqjizn4Lmfcw7As4baStJTrMh2vy7j3wfZl6QXlmIkUJRRVgPxPCq4PHtrX4blNUUmULvCoX6niBvzoEg7TWaIdhFxcziTL0TlGNcZGU6Fp5vQhberhu3SvKchlhQ-5_0PsTyst4zJiG7vBY_5Z4LV-9UhkFslZ997erf/s640/dct1304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMVyK-W_TVtAeWIfUGQBjbqgTqjizn4Lmfcw7As4baStJTrMh2vy7j3wfZl6QXlmIkUJRRVgPxPCq4PHtrX4blNUUmULvCoX6niBvzoEg7TWaIdhFxcziTL0TlGNcZGU6Fp5vQhberhu3SvKchlhQ-5_0PsTyst4zJiG7vBY_5Z4LV-9UhkFslZ997erf/w150-h200/dct1304.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1615" target="_blank">Eastern Mass Street Railway 4387</a> is one of that system's distinctive suburban semi-convertible cars. It's been fully restored by Seashore but is currently out of service with a blown motor, I believe.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9z04iYtIXzmFxg1NGaG6Adi47gJm1wEE6fWx9h_aneRxsrsjblIAuqX5gznG9D_23a5AXtyn1Tl_VUawlIBqrYqQyDC-mT4h65lJ8cUFBHHDXDg_ka1Y65SwdrE3F7MQQ-06T9Y-ZMb-iYG7wd_j5jHSLaDtvNyuvdOf7_i77yGSil8UH4yQJkjGuTPN7/s640/emsr4387.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9z04iYtIXzmFxg1NGaG6Adi47gJm1wEE6fWx9h_aneRxsrsjblIAuqX5gznG9D_23a5AXtyn1Tl_VUawlIBqrYqQyDC-mT4h65lJ8cUFBHHDXDg_ka1Y65SwdrE3F7MQQ-06T9Y-ZMb-iYG7wd_j5jHSLaDtvNyuvdOf7_i77yGSil8UH4yQJkjGuTPN7/w200-h150/emsr4387.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The most modern rapid transit cars at Seashore are <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2062" target="_blank">MBTA 0622</a>-0623, shown here on display, built in 1979 by Hawker-Siddeley. They were operational until recently but I'm not certain of their current status. I believe that due to track conditions, Seashore isn't running heavy interurbans or rapid transit cars on their main line.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC-FB0kfALl2uypwdhb_Ds72rezJ0S55s7fcRh5eOKArMCMlCUEW-PyixFejoa5qDegefFPDVGxo4ZpdPfXW6X_z1LdLMT1RH28tSoJczQP3aTOwuoPNKlQ_wChEG-jls3lKaOKgnsqP5v14MacCDLh_gNYmInBhoVGBlRSGWfozX8ugPmfaymQoIn-V_7/s640/mbta0622.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC-FB0kfALl2uypwdhb_Ds72rezJ0S55s7fcRh5eOKArMCMlCUEW-PyixFejoa5qDegefFPDVGxo4ZpdPfXW6X_z1LdLMT1RH28tSoJczQP3aTOwuoPNKlQ_wChEG-jls3lKaOKgnsqP5v14MacCDLh_gNYmInBhoVGBlRSGWfozX8ugPmfaymQoIn-V_7/w200-h150/mbta0622.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1071" target="_blank">MBTA 5159</a> is one of several snow plows at Seashore that were converted from Type 3 semi-convertibles built in 1908.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHSlEvGT7B4MMOFqUzJUR-HqS9XWteFx1CXcoHzxKxSYSJpuA6hHxavKQKy3YYLZBdywh2EUqarpbFAHMw8efhgu5g6NAXBfMsjpwgxjEbXb4C1IWNdbPaBSC5pYspzE3HIb2uOtxw7I7fmnUQ4Jhiom40X7QEd0fQYzLHmTHmEe8vrqxkRoEMcHCayT7d/s640/mbta5159.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHSlEvGT7B4MMOFqUzJUR-HqS9XWteFx1CXcoHzxKxSYSJpuA6hHxavKQKy3YYLZBdywh2EUqarpbFAHMw8efhgu5g6NAXBfMsjpwgxjEbXb4C1IWNdbPaBSC5pYspzE3HIb2uOtxw7I7fmnUQ4Jhiom40X7QEd0fQYzLHmTHmEe8vrqxkRoEMcHCayT7d/w200-h150/mbta5159.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bill snapped this photo of a distinctive Boston third rail beam, shown on one of the Cambridge-Dorchester subway cars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_s1abtQgCsLaTDVx7HgagNZNwjHqTIvtNT2siFhJBT4FCfJ4WOfWNqJqQbvzKaPmcUGayfJ9depkylBDanb4TLf302EYW0EM4fwpVTDy5aDWy8yfhlRMzKIZtRfpKeE_ZcF0EcZmafI9SKOFRg56b1ts2beMZwqKnOsiSLH1euATIM_QvXixoa6mFvuH5/s640/mbtathirdrailshoe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_s1abtQgCsLaTDVx7HgagNZNwjHqTIvtNT2siFhJBT4FCfJ4WOfWNqJqQbvzKaPmcUGayfJ9depkylBDanb4TLf302EYW0EM4fwpVTDy5aDWy8yfhlRMzKIZtRfpKeE_ZcF0EcZmafI9SKOFRg56b1ts2beMZwqKnOsiSLH1euATIM_QvXixoa6mFvuH5/w200-h150/mbtathirdrailshoe.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1094" target="_blank">"City of Manchester"</a> and <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=689" target="_blank">Atlantic Shore Line 100</a> are certainly among the prides of the fleet at Seashore, both the result of major multi-year restoration efforts. ASL 100 has the added distinction of having run over the museum's right-of-way during its service career.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeeYsjb0z10Jt5vb3Z1ZLH5A2Czn_Hj2mInJdK5RixpPg1cyEVcgVufM8dFgXdY9hS5Y_5ojDdpQl01kQVhfbBQpa4hJoZAkMgKHzn2hCLyAciRxMMe0RdwZbkmFIw_F37eYhukUhVWRDDDoturq74a5aXlnSwsLNa0PMgzm6Ry_3RUXqWPZG-kKnj5jx/s640/msrcityofmanchester.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeeYsjb0z10Jt5vb3Z1ZLH5A2Czn_Hj2mInJdK5RixpPg1cyEVcgVufM8dFgXdY9hS5Y_5ojDdpQl01kQVhfbBQpa4hJoZAkMgKHzn2hCLyAciRxMMe0RdwZbkmFIw_F37eYhukUhVWRDDDoturq74a5aXlnSwsLNa0PMgzm6Ry_3RUXqWPZG-kKnj5jx/w200-h150/msrcityofmanchester.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The centerpiece of Town House Shop at the moment is <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=393" target="_blank">Portland-Lewiston 14</a>, the "Narcissus," a 1912 Laconia-built interurban car that is the subject of a lengthy and involved restoration.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdz577gflsZhwW_VQEBQlmQWqfkjO9BjN2kzREkfMh28-yYP0LT1T78vJSAXpo68JEBL4xSGpJFEROK7NA_SImn6D1q632PMRqm7PMgd2notVTLN9h_Jqh-9SnbelgFh8__afc09nIRRnSIyxoA2lv12mTm5FjX5Cxqu-I2jLXMXcB6VxiPjoR2fEiqKz/s640/plnarcissus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCdz577gflsZhwW_VQEBQlmQWqfkjO9BjN2kzREkfMh28-yYP0LT1T78vJSAXpo68JEBL4xSGpJFEROK7NA_SImn6D1q632PMRqm7PMgd2notVTLN9h_Jqh-9SnbelgFh8__afc09nIRRnSIyxoA2lv12mTm5FjX5Cxqu-I2jLXMXcB6VxiPjoR2fEiqKz/w200-h150/plnarcissus.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Don't get used to seeing <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1808" target="_blank">SEPTA 618</a> at Seashore - it's heading to a new home at the <a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2024/01/almond-joy-going-to-trolley-museum-of.html">Trolley Museum of New York</a> sometime soon.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWC2L4JurR8hc8I6254NyJf3FjHA-zR0LtdkNJBd3cJQJLokJhgS_5k6NIdzQGuZkiZRIRe2XbyMaWmMl5KziPmH3_WsLfb6ptKco23l8Gb_eVk2FsYYvhKGOjraOh0zDIR67VaTR3kTW0UwarnY2eOYBvJUhnoruBLP_xvP-z7XI3CU4omrOwLEuO7ih7/s640/septa618.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWC2L4JurR8hc8I6254NyJf3FjHA-zR0LtdkNJBd3cJQJLokJhgS_5k6NIdzQGuZkiZRIRe2XbyMaWmMl5KziPmH3_WsLfb6ptKco23l8Gb_eVk2FsYYvhKGOjraOh0zDIR67VaTR3kTW0UwarnY2eOYBvJUhnoruBLP_xvP-z7XI3CU4omrOwLEuO7ih7/w200-h150/septa618.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=240" target="_blank">SEPTA 2278</a>, aka "New Hampshire" since it was painted in Bicentennial colors in the 1970s, began life as Kansas City Public Service 781. It came to Seashore in 2012.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0cVgOCU1DKDP_3QY9wEnUGovoYUBU8rXx4wSm7njuzwm2mb17NzIIhxUip77V8YXy-k4ehxIpmiPaSaKrqBLx4_Vsnuo0MJpzCtXKVShOlaPoTLGM6bpcjF-8ENFVNbYi7jILcs-cazrLOkuHzT9YK1glP9z2i1WNAShNvWh6qvyIHr-c5X7lOgmtKP2/s640/septa2278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja0cVgOCU1DKDP_3QY9wEnUGovoYUBU8rXx4wSm7njuzwm2mb17NzIIhxUip77V8YXy-k4ehxIpmiPaSaKrqBLx4_Vsnuo0MJpzCtXKVShOlaPoTLGM6bpcjF-8ENFVNbYi7jILcs-cazrLOkuHzT9YK1glP9z2i1WNAShNvWh6qvyIHr-c5X7lOgmtKP2/w200-h150/septa2278.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1468" target="_blank">Twin City Rapid Transit 1267</a> is a beautifully restored standard car from Minnesota. Seashore restored it to its original "gate car" configuration, with an open rear platform and no passenger entry at the front. I'm not sure whether it's currently operational.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KgOVeNcLM48NiA5W-zC8nonaRrAWBwktyL8g7vzemx1XEDiPCUfu7kfqz2m1KZ-JwI5dJojNBf6DHvN2oDIUyVTGwZmIv1ArFVFBO0gF89mGa4Kn210jYdjRd_ChmUpAKo1A4_RiL9Ag6CsIrDUxVSXl4YahUauqUAGuM4Rd2L5kH0FrvdmTKj_94zE-/s640/tcrt1267.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9KgOVeNcLM48NiA5W-zC8nonaRrAWBwktyL8g7vzemx1XEDiPCUfu7kfqz2m1KZ-JwI5dJojNBf6DHvN2oDIUyVTGwZmIv1ArFVFBO0gF89mGa4Kn210jYdjRd_ChmUpAKo1A4_RiL9Ag6CsIrDUxVSXl4YahUauqUAGuM4Rd2L5kH0FrvdmTKj_94zE-/w200-h150/tcrt1267.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One of the photo lineups the museum set up was in front of the new South Boston barn with DC Transit 1304, featured earlier, and <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1544" target="_blank">Toronto 2890</a>, a 1923 Ottawa-built Peter Witt acquired in 2000 from Halton County. The Witt has been the subject of recent work but is not currently operational.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9teV8sN-dlx97-fAiWj9fnYe-pAyVqinQUUKeYcci6JPoj-ov0XC85qiIU96FDUiYmWRFJDZaJp0Jb6NwDclOaPGqUUqiStDpg4SRVxMVwzie7uNHEwOvu2Xr75qDrgA0s-VNdXjTgCiW3o4cAUW4Y5RilmXqrG_woPY0jV917NfevM3jZTmcMzHG802A/s640/ttc2890.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9teV8sN-dlx97-fAiWj9fnYe-pAyVqinQUUKeYcci6JPoj-ov0XC85qiIU96FDUiYmWRFJDZaJp0Jb6NwDclOaPGqUUqiStDpg4SRVxMVwzie7uNHEwOvu2Xr75qDrgA0s-VNdXjTgCiW3o4cAUW4Y5RilmXqrG_woPY0jV917NfevM3jZTmcMzHG802A/w200-h150/ttc2890.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A true masterpiece of restoration, <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1362" target="_blank">Wheeling Street Railway 639</a> is one of only two Cincinnati curve-siders in operation. It was restored - practically replicated - from the shell of a body and is one of the regular service cars at Seashore.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMANecZIROqANnr-vDbF1leRmWfm9GaOF_NiwTlM3AhdAKki6TZIqVklSX2p7kr0XN-zlvCOkq8lwEng5fD29emD-BVCHDhEZNsprGomPsZ0Q5DrR34W8iZeAFU3Pt66s5TC1PeT-JdQknEg7zDOjLwm4PQJILt2NOSO4ahZq2baI-hjZmvQD4-RB5tlL/s640/wsr639.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMANecZIROqANnr-vDbF1leRmWfm9GaOF_NiwTlM3AhdAKki6TZIqVklSX2p7kr0XN-zlvCOkq8lwEng5fD29emD-BVCHDhEZNsprGomPsZ0Q5DrR34W8iZeAFU3Pt66s5TC1PeT-JdQknEg7zDOjLwm4PQJILt2NOSO4ahZq2baI-hjZmvQD4-RB5tlL/w150-h200/wsr639.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And to finish off, we'll add some property shots. Bill sent an exterior and an interior photo of Seashore's newest focus, the model railroad building. This was built by a sizable grant from one or two wealthy donors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi80Q8dHg8gnSjQievBFjPaCU8K41XY9Z-iivVLHVs55Ypci6dDqavq2TqHlkONc9yDKTH6KEHtWElGrVmXtk8xxad91XsYkS0SJEv7hrj4g3EoI4VKIOYDWdr_78Tp-J5MtOT20sHvT4szrnFAqf_Lu_LvFk9drTzhyphenhypheniBEXAzNOnBXfliKU-dfxz_uYkds/s640/xmrr-ext.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi80Q8dHg8gnSjQievBFjPaCU8K41XY9Z-iivVLHVs55Ypci6dDqavq2TqHlkONc9yDKTH6KEHtWElGrVmXtk8xxad91XsYkS0SJEv7hrj4g3EoI4VKIOYDWdr_78Tp-J5MtOT20sHvT4szrnFAqf_Lu_LvFk9drTzhyphenhypheniBEXAzNOnBXfliKU-dfxz_uYkds/w200-h150/xmrr-ext.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodedE83ao0Hon3FFuwiKcb10siLoK9TkKZ1kkfeAYHZqHzJcYmWxMuykXuGGgy-pbTSAOKrdhyphenhypheneFMF4owpStV1oUaYooeBIEdviCIGL4uEidfroCHy9TS4O_TOa_UJ9kHYFvzT6Ip1z8nduUfLo3pEksAYi9Q9b9SQIwHcTrOQFfgwlAmHQhmWdE0x6oJ/s640/xmrr-int.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgodedE83ao0Hon3FFuwiKcb10siLoK9TkKZ1kkfeAYHZqHzJcYmWxMuykXuGGgy-pbTSAOKrdhyphenhypheneFMF4owpStV1oUaYooeBIEdviCIGL4uEidfroCHy9TS4O_TOa_UJ9kHYFvzT6Ip1z8nduUfLo3pEksAYi9Q9b9SQIwHcTrOQFfgwlAmHQhmWdE0x6oJ/w200-h150/xmrr-int.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here we are in the new South Boston carbarn, showing off features like the insulated walls, steel framing, wall-to-wall concrete and between-rails inspection pit. This replaces the older, smaller, and decidedly ramshackle South Boston barn, which was demolished a year or two ago.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8z3ySM49xXpMd_JHBVr1KN4jK684wiH3S27dcqxvNw9J-vqJGduoeYfiZBmGbK9qKuutE6EHlCsuz5V1VuIOQcej7unYwcZ-TAFbAy_3e-9dXdmr4xoq5U0Mh5Ugc_F_FmB2teMUE0EVI4uP0kI1ogpqV-mBgg5eIb6KOw2MzXUpPzJCiudDWvRpYyCxe/s640/xnewbarn1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8z3ySM49xXpMd_JHBVr1KN4jK684wiH3S27dcqxvNw9J-vqJGduoeYfiZBmGbK9qKuutE6EHlCsuz5V1VuIOQcej7unYwcZ-TAFbAy_3e-9dXdmr4xoq5U0Mh5Ugc_F_FmB2teMUE0EVI4uP0kI1ogpqV-mBgg5eIb6KOw2MzXUpPzJCiudDWvRpYyCxe/w200-h150/xnewbarn1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And we'll finish with a couple of night photo shoots. First, the two operating ConnCo cars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSeRGFKGbbm1fSx4Q8MgvSyokUeJV1B0isvtXmC5PANWyr4wp73XjkBFAqO6rg4-Lnx1HZ35MTN7hoc54Ivj2MKblpZRV7LBvLeP7HB3kJiqKOeD90NMXqyXgWd9YA3hTyWiTxq8J3xyS9hRf7mIX4QmfRWVdo9AdshKa8sq_w8W1prpGCs4ziuAE_Rli0/s640/xnightconnco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSeRGFKGbbm1fSx4Q8MgvSyokUeJV1B0isvtXmC5PANWyr4wp73XjkBFAqO6rg4-Lnx1HZ35MTN7hoc54Ivj2MKblpZRV7LBvLeP7HB3kJiqKOeD90NMXqyXgWd9YA3hTyWiTxq8J3xyS9hRf7mIX4QmfRWVdo9AdshKa8sq_w8W1prpGCs4ziuAE_Rli0/w200-h150/xnightconnco.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And here are 639, 1304, and 2890 in front of the new South Boston barn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWqWZh9fD3PsW98M9xCxaxTVf2OAILEBglq_Brc5QwB74zVfQujnYvN8NnQCTP0iEcg8d1WZ6IxEyMgpz51_p3NSuqbBQGdW_u5G73ZXHbeEvvKqoVaJRzC3WXWeGTOBMxcDiIklJ-Cez-hXeo2YMLtglK_7AxFrAa6qN4FPPSwyRJ9lMub23K7fd2PRDx/s640/xnightphoto.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWqWZh9fD3PsW98M9xCxaxTVf2OAILEBglq_Brc5QwB74zVfQujnYvN8NnQCTP0iEcg8d1WZ6IxEyMgpz51_p3NSuqbBQGdW_u5G73ZXHbeEvvKqoVaJRzC3WXWeGTOBMxcDiIklJ-Cez-hXeo2YMLtglK_7AxFrAa6qN4FPPSwyRJ9lMub23K7fd2PRDx/w200-h150/xnightphoto.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-20486731926882502952024-03-20T21:07:00.003-05:002024-03-22T22:07:43.673-05:00ConnCo 1414 Returns Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiasrQrCEjav9HW7mqIDcruNEF8n4X-9eFWsYrZ2aW9EVOrxaasc4a-97jnWeM2VrLDPb_UvaxXaWXWNzvoy0I-53k1d0CXEycrDKpMR_eDmi9fUEfir19JqRuoxp5L6qJylcwmrE7NfM8sKamd-GdzYR03jAElvjn8HuKe5n0qzTCdkxrvfyHVXuCihbK_/s1024/IMG_7369.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiasrQrCEjav9HW7mqIDcruNEF8n4X-9eFWsYrZ2aW9EVOrxaasc4a-97jnWeM2VrLDPb_UvaxXaWXWNzvoy0I-53k1d0CXEycrDKpMR_eDmi9fUEfir19JqRuoxp5L6qJylcwmrE7NfM8sKamd-GdzYR03jAElvjn8HuKe5n0qzTCdkxrvfyHVXuCihbK_/w200-h150/IMG_7369.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>Thanks to Bill Wall for sending the above photo and the news that <a href="https://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1478">Connecticut Company 1414</a> has returned home from its 27-year stint at the Lake Compounce Amuseument Park. It was trucked back to East Haven today and will be unloaded at Branford in the morning. <b>UPDATE:</b> <a href="https://www.wtnh.com/video/historic-trolley-taken-to-museum/9536881/" target="_blank">Video here</a><div><br /></div><div>Car 1414 is a big 15-bench deck-roof open car built by Osgood-Bradley for ConnCo in 1911. Part of the Branford fleet from the earliest days in 1948, in 1997 it was loaned to an historic amusement park at Lake Compounce, where it ran back and forth on an 1800' route with a small shed at one end to protect the car. This fairly unique operation seems to have been quite successful for quite a long time, but the amusement park is redeveloping that area and so the car's time there is through. It's operational, so I would guess that it will be making regular appearances in service at Branford. It's one of three cars of this series preserved: sister <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1479" target="_blank">car 1425</a> is currently under restoration at Branford, and may join its twin in operation one of these days, while <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1483" target="_blank">car 1468</a> is stored in rough but complete condition at Seashore.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-31494635098775691252024-03-19T23:05:00.001-05:002024-03-20T11:58:02.974-05:00Postcard from KennebunkportMany thanks to Bill Wulfert, who participated in this past weekend's Winterfest event at the Seashore Trolley Museum. It sounds like the event was well attended, with some 180 or so people from various museums. There were quite a few seminars and discussions that were scheduled in advance; the museum's new model railroad was up and running; some cars were staged for nighttime photo shows; and there were operations, of course, provided by two electric cars (<a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1456" target="_blank">ConnCo 1160</a> and <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=612" target="_blank">Claremont 4</a>), a diesel, and a speeder. Fortunately for roster aficionados like myself, though, Bill mostly pointed his camera toward the less often photographed cars in the Seashore collection. Enjoy!<div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">First, a few photos of <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=414" target="_blank">South Shore 32</a>, which is on the deaccession list for obvious reasons.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVvffeJnKFwAPSJLkwsIWNIQ29KL7LppJT6G2DuOISbw9AL73TpNvKawRQwXStOQwNsWbp93-vyfzeLO6JwKlvtb3HmjuGM9-m57dvklZ2zSuVOSTuQFpsB36y7zGW1GsKvVKjudUm8WOUT-kNnTBde2chS-oA-ra4_eBJPwrx13S-00_okNtz3Q_6s4j/s640/css32a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheVvffeJnKFwAPSJLkwsIWNIQ29KL7LppJT6G2DuOISbw9AL73TpNvKawRQwXStOQwNsWbp93-vyfzeLO6JwKlvtb3HmjuGM9-m57dvklZ2zSuVOSTuQFpsB36y7zGW1GsKvVKjudUm8WOUT-kNnTBde2chS-oA-ra4_eBJPwrx13S-00_okNtz3Q_6s4j/w200-h150/css32a.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KxTnPA78uqZ-yBP8KhkkhPVC9WbgJcTOkp3C96TQjBbKJhit4_FpaDuFB7jdWtw2hCqK8gCrrN-zP5MDm3htAzkq_6CPh83L8uG9OOXRXCExf3fH1dkJSL7oduynpex98fyCGMK_sr3_r-_EJXNQKMB6_QJxrD-pl3YKwTke0dS5wYFljXMVvJfjP6Vb/s640/css32b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5KxTnPA78uqZ-yBP8KhkkhPVC9WbgJcTOkp3C96TQjBbKJhit4_FpaDuFB7jdWtw2hCqK8gCrrN-zP5MDm3htAzkq_6CPh83L8uG9OOXRXCExf3fH1dkJSL7oduynpex98fyCGMK_sr3_r-_EJXNQKMB6_QJxrD-pl3YKwTke0dS5wYFljXMVvJfjP6Vb/w200-h150/css32b.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Next up is <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1772" target="_blank">CTA 6600</a>, part of the furthest-east pair of "spam cans" in preservation.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrPGV-HoAJpwGB7TRHgVQRaL8vNoQMCi-zvqOekHY0pAnPV_unUdFPvd_MSu7EC8Bj-CGQ50gYxwmF2UunFLLY5nLFUJwW6kh9kQXvjOo7DhTy1SN_5swYeNTx6Z5Bw7tbotdhxK_3GP5T3WyqdA7JyhyN2njq3ovoBJq0hypoouFI6mfwc6mdBmg7wog/s640/cta6600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibrPGV-HoAJpwGB7TRHgVQRaL8vNoQMCi-zvqOekHY0pAnPV_unUdFPvd_MSu7EC8Bj-CGQ50gYxwmF2UunFLLY5nLFUJwW6kh9kQXvjOo7DhTy1SN_5swYeNTx6Z5Bw7tbotdhxK_3GP5T3WyqdA7JyhyN2njq3ovoBJq0hypoouFI6mfwc6mdBmg7wog/w200-h150/cta6600.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1353" target="_blank">Dallas Railway & Terminal 608</a> is a standard Dallas double-end PCC, but it has the distinction of being the only one of its type that has been backdated to original appearance. This was done by Seashore some years ago and the car still looks quite nice, though the inside seems to be suffering a bit.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPcVws7D8MOdJwIoMVPhwLC01PU9Kd5QBm6YYQIOzcnIbHrvrVWhVXsq76hqOQrWweXi9aPlDhS5nnWboNL5Kx6_K1SYJyBwjpxY_5xFQKT4JOkE-JQygdQEEbywFmasyw4ZdkNKgQomCXb1Faasd3yZl7gGIxixsjH94JmWPDXaqinNxkcC60Omx4WBO/s640/drt608.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEPcVws7D8MOdJwIoMVPhwLC01PU9Kd5QBm6YYQIOzcnIbHrvrVWhVXsq76hqOQrWweXi9aPlDhS5nnWboNL5Kx6_K1SYJyBwjpxY_5xFQKT4JOkE-JQygdQEEbywFmasyw4ZdkNKgQomCXb1Faasd3yZl7gGIxixsjH94JmWPDXaqinNxkcC60Omx4WBO/w150-h200/drt608.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf2co4ELpyWje38gdnO2RIFARFkxDDLi5ilGzlIgZdldHB9t9VcmFcY1VehpK6CTXDpuqH3cbiNe0NwfxrNJNJ6_vwJgaS_lSmS4TwXk2NYgFQRt2OAJRliYN85kMFDRXiw7W_OjarFZGdEvKGSvMjswyyHvgFbGC3Pra83z00rziSyJjUpwlfl5n8S8f2/s640/drt608int.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf2co4ELpyWje38gdnO2RIFARFkxDDLi5ilGzlIgZdldHB9t9VcmFcY1VehpK6CTXDpuqH3cbiNe0NwfxrNJNJ6_vwJgaS_lSmS4TwXk2NYgFQRt2OAJRliYN85kMFDRXiw7W_OjarFZGdEvKGSvMjswyyHvgFbGC3Pra83z00rziSyJjUpwlfl5n8S8f2/w150-h200/drt608int.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The two below photos show <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1549" target="_blank">Boston 3019</a>, built in 1941, one of the oldest PCC cars from the Hub City. It's stored in an open-ended barn, hence the protective tarp over its front end. This car never had a low monitor roof like most of the city's PCCs had.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjST7wcapqIMnvHVAdLvPT8IvqDp5EUc-epMSSR2zc7Rqt6J_zqlBUWzQUMMg0kvT26xvc8hRpV5NUMigdR2JpsdRLWSZsXEVWpZ6aX_ID0xeSId_QBSmjxDwDCR6fsgffcwuhV1ryAKywAZ4H_qXuYv4MwIIjNxQdxdc23hWfdYpL_2ziVamuBhP5TT-U1/s640/mbta3019.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjST7wcapqIMnvHVAdLvPT8IvqDp5EUc-epMSSR2zc7Rqt6J_zqlBUWzQUMMg0kvT26xvc8hRpV5NUMigdR2JpsdRLWSZsXEVWpZ6aX_ID0xeSId_QBSmjxDwDCR6fsgffcwuhV1ryAKywAZ4H_qXuYv4MwIIjNxQdxdc23hWfdYpL_2ziVamuBhP5TT-U1/w150-h200/mbta3019.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeOIHIcTwObpbsMmHpWjOOsrKJd9W6o7SK8nvFtT-v_jN0DZK-Y537xizPvCyLNfwk8K7Oh1-3OE2GgX_6q58qPTiFN_E_DHlbI3QVQoAA_3TBAlv46LTb4LDPjX9X0Oko6Lp4N7qI0IV5fzf4f2NDZ4HymMA61DL2hx-DjwcTa0M_pKPxWZ99IGOMYil/s640/mbta3019b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZeOIHIcTwObpbsMmHpWjOOsrKJd9W6o7SK8nvFtT-v_jN0DZK-Y537xizPvCyLNfwk8K7Oh1-3OE2GgX_6q58qPTiFN_E_DHlbI3QVQoAA_3TBAlv46LTb4LDPjX9X0Oko6Lp4N7qI0IV5fzf4f2NDZ4HymMA61DL2hx-DjwcTa0M_pKPxWZ99IGOMYil/w150-h200/mbta3019b.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another "flat top" PCC from Boston is <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1550" target="_blank">MBTA 3037</a>, shown here, a 1944 "wartime" car which is also on the deaccession list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi53UvPm5La9fNv9yrddua5K4_fJqId3NW_vSdfzx5zZ1Ofjor_zUME6ZGtH1oFF5f-zUpSHu4TWU1qsWPzPOvd3eg_Yb0LHMWoBeS1uo6mDhIVwskHdieKhrhVjpXdpQjL1SBX0vlZLvpXklmCgnRcX1W0MAWZsVuhoG_EB1r3MFHhd54X6zbyueWLi8Et/s640/mbta3037.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi53UvPm5La9fNv9yrddua5K4_fJqId3NW_vSdfzx5zZ1Ofjor_zUME6ZGtH1oFF5f-zUpSHu4TWU1qsWPzPOvd3eg_Yb0LHMWoBeS1uo6mDhIVwskHdieKhrhVjpXdpQjL1SBX0vlZLvpXklmCgnRcX1W0MAWZsVuhoG_EB1r3MFHhd54X6zbyueWLi8Et/w200-h150/mbta3037.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1551" target="_blank">MBTA 3069</a> is from the same 1944 order as 3037. It's been displayed mounted on the "highway monster," Seashore's infamous car-moving trailer, for at least 25 years. In recent years, though, it's been tarped. Like 3037, it's on the deaccession list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0mMfAlt6MvP-KOreeEz1LM42oqoVg5f0uaKAehUoh293tW32ogbln3KaQVNO2yNg-LVZ6bBurZa8DnNr1FPUgdos5RByBhVm7y8JBMiSysERftwMa5-16E93kY5IBM3B87gsQqW_irhh2d6_rNiBJJm-WgYBS6aOor6UKq_nIYVvGZJ5QolQscUVIHYE/s640/mbta3069.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI0mMfAlt6MvP-KOreeEz1LM42oqoVg5f0uaKAehUoh293tW32ogbln3KaQVNO2yNg-LVZ6bBurZa8DnNr1FPUgdos5RByBhVm7y8JBMiSysERftwMa5-16E93kY5IBM3B87gsQqW_irhh2d6_rNiBJJm-WgYBS6aOor6UKq_nIYVvGZJ5QolQscUVIHYE/w200-h150/mbta3069.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhVHsttjcvwaQWMebRUVGC0WdMyXfYGlDiYIZU5q8uHgx6Iep-LGyv7kOYkrYMVSmw21lTZR9LDtltftdw3fytN6CuIfWL6DMd4bxOETuxFN0INphQyvxCoSY1hTeHmakndhgyPzo7jYWyuxH1BLNGRW4dxViCR5ktCpTAPBwDShVY4KVtLc4ZXg_lY0b/s640/mbta3069b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOhVHsttjcvwaQWMebRUVGC0WdMyXfYGlDiYIZU5q8uHgx6Iep-LGyv7kOYkrYMVSmw21lTZR9LDtltftdw3fytN6CuIfWL6DMd4bxOETuxFN0INphQyvxCoSY1hTeHmakndhgyPzo7jYWyuxH1BLNGRW4dxViCR5ktCpTAPBwDShVY4KVtLc4ZXg_lY0b/w200-h150/mbta3069b.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1552" target="_blank">MBTA 3083</a> is another wartime car, though from a different order than the previous two cars.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvm1HM8sAte-cL-PVMP6Kq77LPOPd_ftIwqiUZblax01A4xPCV2AwvGv9anWzQOfu-4NtLTj1Y2fJn69e954we6QAk8DSQtBpEr1mv4HUZHv38bm1ErRY3D0Y5fEx3MWkjjQRxnj6P6D_f9Z5zk2Bo1xq8GZx2ArFJgMRXxK7JICx1zBRvVA34mSt4VJrd/s640/mbta3083b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvm1HM8sAte-cL-PVMP6Kq77LPOPd_ftIwqiUZblax01A4xPCV2AwvGv9anWzQOfu-4NtLTj1Y2fJn69e954we6QAk8DSQtBpEr1mv4HUZHv38bm1ErRY3D0Y5fEx3MWkjjQRxnj6P6D_f9Z5zk2Bo1xq8GZx2ArFJgMRXxK7JICx1zBRvVA34mSt4VJrd/w200-h150/mbta3083b.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8I5_Ef6OkR3xFknzeh8pOT_PtYB_Fk4VL78VVd9Jwpv3XeCf8XbSTiRFxvh-Qtz19JBxhWyDPBXAdm8TuuzLPLqipBbY-Bdmk2lvWCpgOlga4tGEJBka8uvODClnr6UeYv9iSwStLj2cmeJXQLjaZv2d4H6LSwbm7xRvrd-iBiG1cUvJtL64sfBxsQJu3/s640/mbta3083.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8I5_Ef6OkR3xFknzeh8pOT_PtYB_Fk4VL78VVd9Jwpv3XeCf8XbSTiRFxvh-Qtz19JBxhWyDPBXAdm8TuuzLPLqipBbY-Bdmk2lvWCpgOlga4tGEJBka8uvODClnr6UeYv9iSwStLj2cmeJXQLjaZv2d4H6LSwbm7xRvrd-iBiG1cUvJtL64sfBxsQJu3/w150-h200/mbta3083.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One thing I really appreciate is that in at least some cases, Seashore labels their tarps. <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1671" target="_blank">MBTA 3327</a> is a Dallas double-ender that was heavily rebuilt for work car service, including a big baggage door in the middle of the car side. It's on the deaccession list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUE33lNqwYiFIfPkgRKJCkXYnfinaIXrE4NOlqbKFvIew9PXNCi6XghZDzbTHj-bRuQWg0coiZKCWG2ywcPj9eVIVuX-bvTF6_4bd80lZaN6E-agbh7wqPVEpbdOxH8tnRXe_mtIv_40rn9suG7OyOCC5j2DpXhEFPsPaBRRtrOdThlv3IesgRAf_iGm4/s640/mbta3327.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTUE33lNqwYiFIfPkgRKJCkXYnfinaIXrE4NOlqbKFvIew9PXNCi6XghZDzbTHj-bRuQWg0coiZKCWG2ywcPj9eVIVuX-bvTF6_4bd80lZaN6E-agbh7wqPVEpbdOxH8tnRXe_mtIv_40rn9suG7OyOCC5j2DpXhEFPsPaBRRtrOdThlv3IesgRAf_iGm4/w200-h150/mbta3327.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=626" target="_blank">MBTA 3332</a>, another ex-Dallas car, was also in work service late in its career. It, too, is on the deaccession list.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhed2aAo9zoRY1riFpFR5rHOg7KoLn0ihf8WlcUslCrtzDnzPdy0rKIATnsckWWydwsUGf4boAhdCBVSg91ArriLt_AWe0hn-awJBXWi2w6OUMwjVqDIp_sUtSnOwx1R4Gp6WLyJwh4Q5ao38Ysm-MVjwAvT0v6ycWh7HW-w9WTYitl1_oqdZC1mCsKUaTU/s640/mbta3332.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhed2aAo9zoRY1riFpFR5rHOg7KoLn0ihf8WlcUslCrtzDnzPdy0rKIATnsckWWydwsUGf4boAhdCBVSg91ArriLt_AWe0hn-awJBXWi2w6OUMwjVqDIp_sUtSnOwx1R4Gp6WLyJwh4Q5ao38Ysm-MVjwAvT0v6ycWh7HW-w9WTYitl1_oqdZC1mCsKUaTU/w200-h150/mbta3332.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In addition to backdated Dallas car 608, shown earlier, double-end <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1602" target="_blank">car 3340</a> is the other car of this type Seashore has restored. This one is in Boston MTA colors to represent this type's early years after arriving in the northeast. For a while in the 2010s, I believe this car was the "gate guardian," but if I'm not mistaken that role is currently filled by an MBTA dump motor.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZfuVPcNUOtiGkRCLduDlGnX0BZL8EPiblne6R9CZqIuo1u150styv3VUtvIFA2bDO0INOm9Hn9rI8Q3BLtUu_EDwEqgkQBxtURrwBaSMB0rYBUK34cHE39NIw5EjoxSYRP3NtuAhtKV80uadRAPCK4M5xJ-tDQke1PwWZVuey7RZWVR0EXhXdnSPLLI3/s640/mbta3340.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiZfuVPcNUOtiGkRCLduDlGnX0BZL8EPiblne6R9CZqIuo1u150styv3VUtvIFA2bDO0INOm9Hn9rI8Q3BLtUu_EDwEqgkQBxtURrwBaSMB0rYBUK34cHE39NIw5EjoxSYRP3NtuAhtKV80uadRAPCK4M5xJ-tDQke1PwWZVuey7RZWVR0EXhXdnSPLLI3/w200-h150/mbta3340.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Bill wasn't certain which car this was, but was pretty sure it was a Montreal car. So, I'm guessing this is the interior of <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1514" target="_blank">Montreal Tramways 2052</a>, a 1927 Wason product originally built for Springfield, MA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0wmJPbZT-VP3UayozPimVac_gvJis8fX9F-vT4rh434awUX53uXUlkWwKzs-ZASjEOzZ_NevNKXnWhkonaJRhn_WsXWMqlnnkpaCA7Zg2QEIlOzt7XbrjJWSyxd67ykxrbuyNDDzxYXRTrBZY5E4bY6AcB8KlmH7qkam3oJnEY5_sQiuHf-j4FD8JzDuK/s640/mt2052int.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0wmJPbZT-VP3UayozPimVac_gvJis8fX9F-vT4rh434awUX53uXUlkWwKzs-ZASjEOzZ_NevNKXnWhkonaJRhn_WsXWMqlnnkpaCA7Zg2QEIlOzt7XbrjJWSyxd67ykxrbuyNDDzxYXRTrBZY5E4bY6AcB8KlmH7qkam3oJnEY5_sQiuHf-j4FD8JzDuK/w150-h200/mt2052int.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1481" target="_blank">Pittsburgh Railways 1440</a> represents that city in Seashore's collection. It's a 1942 prewar car. Bill points out that in the second photo, you can see the unusual (unique?) slotted step treads.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG63VPELEhHSouUakwGQ2nkqHzarQPb1BdJAbI0AT1iM6nhuZcieN2ySpAOL54L-M3t7XdqhidxQNM5DKz8ZXiEFS2i8mdayDRD0pj9FgKVgJjy1fDjK7RGXaMROexfqklTtaYdLybk_juhi57ywgP8BatbG7l3pe5_5HsskrKoEE3cNo66mkcGr895h8T/s640/prys1440.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG63VPELEhHSouUakwGQ2nkqHzarQPb1BdJAbI0AT1iM6nhuZcieN2ySpAOL54L-M3t7XdqhidxQNM5DKz8ZXiEFS2i8mdayDRD0pj9FgKVgJjy1fDjK7RGXaMROexfqklTtaYdLybk_juhi57ywgP8BatbG7l3pe5_5HsskrKoEE3cNo66mkcGr895h8T/w150-h200/prys1440.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGddvo0Vpcd6-GkzutteJeACqRckVc7p7NKSgxUvaFAWu7xC_qORs2S3Tuu6ZYxxM1C8mZ_wFvFfYIQivbqpks4H3ejPpL7TINyZlUDjBNHeQWpWZNqJisvemP2gNyo2bmayqYa1IoIkQdMX5uV_dOG-0F8yRDZIEaqMddj6qbINWPZDCaGVyMIrm_R1g2/s640/prys1440b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGddvo0Vpcd6-GkzutteJeACqRckVc7p7NKSgxUvaFAWu7xC_qORs2S3Tuu6ZYxxM1C8mZ_wFvFfYIQivbqpks4H3ejPpL7TINyZlUDjBNHeQWpWZNqJisvemP2gNyo2bmayqYa1IoIkQdMX5uV_dOG-0F8yRDZIEaqMddj6qbINWPZDCaGVyMIrm_R1g2/w200-h150/prys1440b.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1529" target="_blank">Philadelphia PCC 2289</a> is an ex-Kansas City car that had an unusual preservation career. It entered preservation early, in 1967, when it went to Trolley Valhalla. Sometime after that group gave way to the Buckingham Valley group, 2289 was sold to a private owner, who stored it outside for 30 or 35 years. It came to Seashore in 2012 with the unique distinction, I believe, of being the only Philadelphia PCC in preservation that never ran for SEPTA.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60IDMaY5LpKwDSf12QIY4yyrdST1UzEh5h0fUGpeHOuxLPyHJAIHpSE1QoVstJyWRXVaWT1a-ShjAX7yfPUU-Fek0W86Mn-QkvKu5aqMEmWxnM6wNw-3VBwFXIOYN1sQDVA6fuuAEdHiwgnYg11jQ8r_mtXAbGJbQADqm_2loAMnCEg6ntVR8ZyIbJA1l/s640/ptc2289.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi60IDMaY5LpKwDSf12QIY4yyrdST1UzEh5h0fUGpeHOuxLPyHJAIHpSE1QoVstJyWRXVaWT1a-ShjAX7yfPUU-Fek0W86Mn-QkvKu5aqMEmWxnM6wNw-3VBwFXIOYN1sQDVA6fuuAEdHiwgnYg11jQ8r_mtXAbGJbQADqm_2loAMnCEg6ntVR8ZyIbJA1l/w200-h150/ptc2289.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A far more typical Philadelphia PCC is this car, <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1537" target="_blank">SEPTA 2709</a>, a run-of-the-mill GOH car.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zl1E9pXSJ7CFR41Dg7FutI4ZnHgyEqoePraSC64muXa2_VBLsLihAa0cCSXzOWyqcJPqaJ4GnEeCNxeGsc6fAnXoXHWyMTWk2DiDcivhztjSmNRFEo3tJp-2RF_-3b-dAUZi5i7ZKdrGT9N570BOwQvNPh07KPUizCKueomEXw6En88310TSjq1-RS_k/s640/septa2709.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zl1E9pXSJ7CFR41Dg7FutI4ZnHgyEqoePraSC64muXa2_VBLsLihAa0cCSXzOWyqcJPqaJ4GnEeCNxeGsc6fAnXoXHWyMTWk2DiDcivhztjSmNRFEo3tJp-2RF_-3b-dAUZi5i7ZKdrGT9N570BOwQvNPh07KPUizCKueomEXw6En88310TSjq1-RS_k/w200-h150/septa2709.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tired of PCCs? Cleanse your pallet with this shot of <a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1225" target="_blank">York Utilities 82</a>, a 1919 American-built Birney that comprised one half of the Denver & South Platte roster before being sold for service in Maine in 1927. It and its fellow D&SP car came to Seashore in 1946.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMX41BgWmMg5ezVn3du1MCFCq44UviW6XSVoPd3usCUhnggczctTzw_-O5G9IVRGodhreL2W_QqF5k-7WGPXVq-D5v8giaFFdcHXf04hby8UkUZBwEKIj7cefl48VxpICBf3qwrr_DNGzR42YkLvDGiG_o8OCbu-0yJjx75EAGnq24W9tHUxHOxMSAjxE_/s640/york82.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMX41BgWmMg5ezVn3du1MCFCq44UviW6XSVoPd3usCUhnggczctTzw_-O5G9IVRGodhreL2W_QqF5k-7WGPXVq-D5v8giaFFdcHXf04hby8UkUZBwEKIj7cefl48VxpICBf3qwrr_DNGzR42YkLvDGiG_o8OCbu-0yJjx75EAGnq24W9tHUxHOxMSAjxE_/w200-h150/york82.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-44703885790647465462024-03-05T21:30:00.000-06:002024-03-05T21:30:29.485-06:00A Steeplecab Stumper<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2A_6-_0zZbabVCy8R8ftGw-_U5-rL5FuyMWluh3wNlaM-z2oukBkhywvLQebC1Bc2q58M_Fwnsj2xkOoU26v8DyYWhN1w-s6CoPFehHAsnpg5t31biv98vMWfpHU1fcqoKeJqf1vUJHXb8d8yH-U87dVd4sNZypNWDjwi38WIvS3pb-WWLuXVpQuvYa9q/s448/missoula-.03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="448" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2A_6-_0zZbabVCy8R8ftGw-_U5-rL5FuyMWluh3wNlaM-z2oukBkhywvLQebC1Bc2q58M_Fwnsj2xkOoU26v8DyYWhN1w-s6CoPFehHAsnpg5t31biv98vMWfpHU1fcqoKeJqf1vUJHXb8d8yH-U87dVd4sNZypNWDjwi38WIvS3pb-WWLuXVpQuvYa9q/w200-h150/missoula-.03.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Many thanks to Paul Schneble, who sent me a series of corrections and additional tidbits of information (like the builder number for <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1709" target="_blank">this thing</a></b>). One thing he pointed out involves the steeplecab shown above, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=701" target="_blank">Missoula Street Railway .03</a></b>, preserved at the Oregon Electric Railway Museum. But after looking into it a bit, I'm just more confused.</div><div><br /></div><div>Let's start with what we <i>think </i>we know. This thing was supposedly built by General Electric in 1903 (we'll come back to this), was Missoula Street Railway (MSR) .03 (there's photographic evidence of this), and after MSR quit it became Anaconda Copper 351 or L351, depending on which source you use. In 1973 it was pulled off the scrap line along with another pair of early electric locomotives and preserved as part of the OERHS collection. One of these is <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=693" target="_blank">Anaconda Copper 254</a></b>, an odd-looking GE built in 1916, and the other is <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=702" target="_blank">Anaconda Copper 401</a></b>, a very early "standard" Baldwin-Westinghouse dating to 1912 and described in Joe Strapac's book on B-W locomotives as the very first "Class B" steeplecab built.</div><div><br /></div><div>What Paul pointed out is that Strapac's B-W book also includes Anaconda Copper (ACC) 351, the locomotive pictured at the top of this post that was supposedly built by GE in 1903, in its B-W order list. But there are discrepancies. Strapac says that ACC 351 was built in 1911 as a Class B, builder #36840, as Western Lumber Company 1. It later became ACC 351. That makes sense, I guess, since WLC was bought by ACC in 1928 - but it doesn't say anything about the locomotive belonging to MSR. And the locomotive itself doesn't look anything like a B-W Class B. For one thing, it's got Taylor trucks!</div><div><br /></div><div>Strapac's book also says that ACC 351 is preserved at OERHS but it suggests that ACC 401, builder #38616, was scrapped, which doesn't seem right given that the locomotive appears very much preserved.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anyone have further insight into this? I'd love to know what motors and control (if any) are in these locomotives, but I've never found an OERHS roster with that level of technical detail and I don't know anybody with that organization. If MSR .03 has GE motors, that strongly implies it is indeed a GE. But the mystery wouldn't quite be over even then, because MSR didn't exist until about 1910 and the locomotive's number suggests (though doesn't prove) that it may not have been bought by MSR until as late as the mid-1920s. So, who owned it when it was new? And is it possible that ACC renumbering records got mixed up at some point? If so, is locomotive 401 actually builder #36840 or #38616? Curiouser and curiouser!</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-63205770743846910392024-03-04T21:24:00.002-06:002024-03-04T21:27:12.266-06:00Tandy Car Surfaces<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk4nHDRFjDxg1netVl8O5ukVWyx2KzLEH8xIYxfAfIyFZ5wF2giTr-Evoh1yPYl4odFeOZsmDttSpdkn_Yx4VyQqWYIJQydp685AslCmiM-XGsEscNLjSs8aQimkFTr3xNgnmOTcaqb6Z2a3rg1n-FnmCOmkF4BhyphenhyphenDpB1WXFSroK2TfK0F6u9_71_0l8zF/s1024/tandy-4-dec2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk4nHDRFjDxg1netVl8O5ukVWyx2KzLEH8xIYxfAfIyFZ5wF2giTr-Evoh1yPYl4odFeOZsmDttSpdkn_Yx4VyQqWYIJQydp685AslCmiM-XGsEscNLjSs8aQimkFTr3xNgnmOTcaqb6Z2a3rg1n-FnmCOmkF4BhyphenhyphenDpB1WXFSroK2TfK0F6u9_71_0l8zF/w200-h133/tandy-4-dec2023.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>I've been removing a lot of cars from the PNAERC list recently, but today I got to add one back. I finally found a fleet number for the car shown above: <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2275" target="_blank">Tandy Subway 4</a></b>. This photo popped up at the end of 2023 and shows a car whose existence had been rumored, but I'd never been able to find any solid information. But it's now clear that car 4 has, indeed, been in indoor storage since the Tandy cars were sold off around 2003, and it seems to be in excellent condition. It was being moved last year because the facility where it was stored was being torn down, but it's supposedly been relocated to a Trinity Metro facility elsewhere in Fort Worth.</div><div><br /></div><div>This car was built in 1945 as Capital Transit 1506, one of that city's typical postwar PCC cars. It was among the small fleet sold in 1963 for continued use on the Tandy Subway in Fort Worth. It was heavily rebuilt in "Winnebago" style around 1975-1977. When the Tandy line quit, several of its cars were preserved, but in the last 10 years most of those have been scrapped, including two or three that were stored locally and a couple that were moved to Pennsylvania. In fact, this is the last car preserved in end-of-service condition. Only two other cars that ran on the Tandy line still exist, beautifully restored <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1838" target="_blank">car 1</a></b>, which was never rebuilt with this boxy body, and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1985" target="_blank">car 2</a></b>, which was modified for street railway service on the McKinney Avenue line but has been stored out-of-service for several years now.</div><div><br /></div><div>As a side note, this car is considered privately owned in Fort Worth until I find information to the contrary, but it turns out I already have an entry for "<b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2012" target="_blank">Private owner - Fort Worth</a></b>" in PNAERC. Oops! So, lacking any better ideas, Tandy Subway 4 is listed under as "Ft Worth" rather than "Fort Worth."</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-65371223943719659122024-02-26T23:40:00.000-06:002024-02-26T23:40:05.487-06:00Lackawanna Trailer Removed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9jbJGvWFWctUmowVJ_EbTgSKw6GPnr3Q-y-0rCbOP8hbQdW7vRifxiVnK1fnuGjaLdzCVmoLxBHqVWT_-C3lattDKy39vKw9Tk3FS6FqGBhDU1x8kBkqSmwqjWyNlzqxd1REytj30Idn1tQaX3PLt87tEnfZtCzX5lZRZCDZrYbBPHFT9YJxrb_h-el6/s900/dlw-m3208afh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="900" height="101" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK9jbJGvWFWctUmowVJ_EbTgSKw6GPnr3Q-y-0rCbOP8hbQdW7vRifxiVnK1fnuGjaLdzCVmoLxBHqVWT_-C3lattDKy39vKw9Tk3FS6FqGBhDU1x8kBkqSmwqjWyNlzqxd1REytj30Idn1tQaX3PLt87tEnfZtCzX5lZRZCDZrYbBPHFT9YJxrb_h-el6/w200-h101/dlw-m3208afh.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Thanks again to Wesley Paulson, who was able to contact Travis Stevenson with the Boone & Scenic Valley to ask about 1925-vintage Lackawanna "low roof" MU trailer 3208. This was one of the cars on my "status unknown" list, but Travis confirmed that the car was scrapped quite some time ago - possibly around 20 years ago. It may not have lasted much past the photo I took above when I visited in 2003.</div><div><br /></div><div>Boone is now down to 18 pieces of equipment on the PNAERC list, while the list overall is currently at 2,085 pieces of equipment.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-51664980675997503292024-02-20T21:54:00.007-06:002024-02-20T22:35:11.829-06:00Updates from Warehouse PointThanks to Wesley Paulson for reaching out to Bill Wall, and thanks especially to Bill for writing with a series of updates from the Connecticut Trolley Museum, aka Warehouse Point. Bill even sent along a series of photos taken just a couple of weeks ago at CTM. All photos below are taken by Bill Wall except where noted.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTXFSrnNAOFzqDc2CGl3yc0V7kHyC-77tcsOAPE0Dl8p_PcMfSlZLG-zLmBXDIZEK37tJCinqylSCyk2VGFjb-_AjVEG7jkIKlllrl7W5xzLmX5zfWLgxzVbMf9fy_PmhKz0XR5ULEn75psJNLqrnvgwjFJxnPdwFLg-E9Ealz6ABH0ZAwgixkmwTrY_hF/s1600/ctm-connco2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTXFSrnNAOFzqDc2CGl3yc0V7kHyC-77tcsOAPE0Dl8p_PcMfSlZLG-zLmBXDIZEK37tJCinqylSCyk2VGFjb-_AjVEG7jkIKlllrl7W5xzLmX5zfWLgxzVbMf9fy_PmhKz0XR5ULEn75psJNLqrnvgwjFJxnPdwFLg-E9Ealz6ABH0ZAwgixkmwTrY_hF/w200-h150/ctm-connco2023.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>First, the good news: as shown above, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=335" target="_blank">Connecticut Company box motor 2023</a></b> has not been scrapped, as we had previously thought. I got it mixed up with ConnCo 2022, a different box motor which was, in fact, scrapped by CTM a few years back. While 2023 is not in terrific shape, it is very much intact. It's been added back onto the list following a brief absence.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCgR6HNIrq48IK2PjShHsDvs31ium84Frab4XAXoOJ7abKjgdq2MV-jV0EGbwOjq6uFr6rUekqSS-QhcLco8jjuhpoQ6YHwBAXRPN0OmX5-mXSX-pwHPASPNYFhF43XiiHCSbfOSiw1WCea2exHTLXJyW6TLY1Uslbzfxq7-uZNNPlz91BAjErZNVIlBc/s1600/ctm-york72.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCgR6HNIrq48IK2PjShHsDvs31ium84Frab4XAXoOJ7abKjgdq2MV-jV0EGbwOjq6uFr6rUekqSS-QhcLco8jjuhpoQ6YHwBAXRPN0OmX5-mXSX-pwHPASPNYFhF43XiiHCSbfOSiw1WCea2exHTLXJyW6TLY1Uslbzfxq7-uZNNPlz91BAjErZNVIlBc/w200-h150/ctm-york72.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Another mystery solved is <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1699" target="_blank">York Utilities 72</a></b>, a 1919 Birney built for the Laconia Street Railway and later sold to York Utilities in Sanford, Maine. This is a body that has been at CTM since 1984, and as seen above, it's still there - it's stored on the ground under a tarp, off in the woods. Its condition has been updated from "unknown" to "stored inoperable."</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQflWe34ouFnlsn4cK9lRUu6ZSQTzuPsL9If50EJ2Iym8tAKaDA3u6I5n7qsgXbW5N4C3b2QQAWK7HDsUtLShvSnIh58Yyv1ojxEoxPvuDvKcRwUYb_ImukeI4P62QbdCSHtgVFzUSXWPDYlUJJr5PeI1MrldG1WB4P5Dti72L_VhArYTxY4Dzzvo2Ppdh/s700/ctm-1550.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="525" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQflWe34ouFnlsn4cK9lRUu6ZSQTzuPsL9If50EJ2Iym8tAKaDA3u6I5n7qsgXbW5N4C3b2QQAWK7HDsUtLShvSnIh58Yyv1ojxEoxPvuDvKcRwUYb_ImukeI4P62QbdCSHtgVFzUSXWPDYlUJJr5PeI1MrldG1WB4P5Dti72L_VhArYTxY4Dzzvo2Ppdh/w150-h200/ctm-1550.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><div>From there, the news gets less sunny. First, Bill confirms that Connecticut Company 1550 was scrapped by CTM some time back. It's pictured above in a photo that I took back in 2007. This was a typical double-truck suburban car of the type so common on ConnCo. It was built by Osgood-Bradley in 1911 and, unlike nearly all the surviving ConnCo cars, went to Connecticut Railway & Lighting when the system split up in 1936. It was retired the next year and its body came to CTM in 1977.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwkhyphenhyphenqnuN_88wX75XZb7NSBrIqybIu34-jF6bPkZv_6xnT8ocypttPliaeyIwazwDRdVlvMn9DrnsCqvgpLntvSJqmbKMadQYG9HMUuK9M3E7x-_FOwGdC2n9KzQIHdMAJL5_8273IjCX7XbcFmYZyoI9MvcXfEab6490p4C4FX8QQytMxcco2dp4IDIW/s640/ctm-43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCwkhyphenhyphenqnuN_88wX75XZb7NSBrIqybIu34-jF6bPkZv_6xnT8ocypttPliaeyIwazwDRdVlvMn9DrnsCqvgpLntvSJqmbKMadQYG9HMUuK9M3E7x-_FOwGdC2n9KzQIHdMAJL5_8273IjCX7XbcFmYZyoI9MvcXfEab6490p4C4FX8QQytMxcco2dp4IDIW/w200-h150/ctm-43.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>This 2007 photo shows Bristol Traction 43, a double-truck lightweight safety car built by Wason in 1927 for the Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway. I don't have any recent views of this car, but I don't think it's a stretch to assume that its condition did not improve over the 15 years after this photo was taken. Bill confirms that this car was dismantled about two years ago. It was the last F&L car in a museum, though there's an F&L body surviving as a house in central Massachusetts. In terms of design, there's a pretty similar Wason lightweight preserved intact at Seashore in the form of <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1232" target="_blank">York Utilities 88</a></b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJ5JM-8DijBNyPH0fGRebfqV9Ugv_wqJbyM_5GC6PkNt9putlUZdGoJi3xnl51AnhgXkCP1zDZL1FcpHnElpHGgwwr3yH4_i-k8jxPOyY17fmO3vjv4NO7yQ7hSlwKQN6VBWXWeRsLIb4MCYr0dw_uhavSb88vp4z06PNlIx00VuXK3kkzGhzqnBW3e5k/s640/ctm-man94-2007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="640" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJ5JM-8DijBNyPH0fGRebfqV9Ugv_wqJbyM_5GC6PkNt9putlUZdGoJi3xnl51AnhgXkCP1zDZL1FcpHnElpHGgwwr3yH4_i-k8jxPOyY17fmO3vjv4NO7yQ7hSlwKQN6VBWXWeRsLIb4MCYr0dw_uhavSb88vp4z06PNlIx00VuXK3kkzGhzqnBW3e5k/w200-h149/ctm-man94-2007.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Next up is Manchester Street Railway 94, shown above in a photo taken in 2007. Another body, this single-truck, railroad-roof streetcar was built by Wason in 1905.The body showed up at CTM in 1987.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUTa23Obp3CHBKxgo-WDtJq96tNLF_ytyQxUqEC_fFHMS91QzBQW74kxfA5cxPyw1g_zLbc2otwkO0ByYoHQtF1FycE3xIazlSHkI6pQtgxG5GSCZVw33M16iGhzDBchxdYUhg6N6l2iR8M6A18M9AYLwvGu5CbRFQ1jADClv_z7Xnr8dHGpIM0fZ5F3A/s1600/ctm-manchester94.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcUTa23Obp3CHBKxgo-WDtJq96tNLF_ytyQxUqEC_fFHMS91QzBQW74kxfA5cxPyw1g_zLbc2otwkO0ByYoHQtF1FycE3xIazlSHkI6pQtgxG5GSCZVw33M16iGhzDBchxdYUhg6N6l2iR8M6A18M9AYLwvGu5CbRFQ1jADClv_z7Xnr8dHGpIM0fZ5F3A/w200-h150/ctm-manchester94.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>And here it is today, or what little is left of it. Car 94 has completely collapsed, and probably did so closer to 2007 than to today. It's been taken off the list, of course.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_0vW3x689h23E5vx24Nr31ZnD33Djbw9ZUlxnLy_6-6LArAzvPMzGteba6ADLL27zw5X2RL4SvFBaByFflU0_yI18SHEZ107Go_mWjj-nZdOPxgb_K1kwJz8IlmhOSishaxW693QzSYdDG_teJzj3NBq6T5PfiFOipfY3am8B6XPbQzOF7xjsMSXeBkjy/s1600/ctm-bristol34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_0vW3x689h23E5vx24Nr31ZnD33Djbw9ZUlxnLy_6-6LArAzvPMzGteba6ADLL27zw5X2RL4SvFBaByFflU0_yI18SHEZ107Go_mWjj-nZdOPxgb_K1kwJz8IlmhOSishaxW693QzSYdDG_teJzj3NBq6T5PfiFOipfY3am8B6XPbQzOF7xjsMSXeBkjy/w200-h150/ctm-bristol34.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>And then finally we have Bristol Traction 34, shown above. This is a single-truck arch-roof convertible of pretty unusual design; by the time Wason built it for the Bristol & Plainville in 1917, not too many companies were ordering full convertibles like this. It was also built with an unusual Brill Radiax E1 truck, making it one of just two cars on the PNAERC list that once had that type (bet you can't guess the <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2097" target="_blank">other one</a></b>). Finally, according to my notes it arrived at CTM way back in 1948, astonishingly, which certainly makes it one of the very earliest car bodies acquired by a trolley museum anywhere - most trolley museums hadn't even been founded in 1948. But in recent decades it just sat outside next to the CTM shop, slowly becoming more derelict. It's hard to decide when this frog is fully boiled, so to speak, but given the photo above, I think it's safe to consider car 34 to be effectively gone as an intact car. So, I've taken it off the list.<div><br /></div></div><div>With these changes, the CTM roster is down from three Bristol cars to just <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1704" target="_blank">one</a></b>, and down from 47 cars to 43 cars total in the collection. When you add in the two interurban cars, two Chicago 'L' cars, and the locomotive that the museum has also deaccessed within the last five years, CTM has culled its collection by more than 20%.</div><div><br /></div><div>On an unrelated note, Wesley was able to track down one more car from the "mystery cars" list that, fortunately, is still around. Los Angeles Railway 1030, a Birney body built in 1920 by St. Louis, had disappeared about 10 years ago. It has now turned up, stored under a tarp in a bus lot in Downey, California. I'm not exactly certain who owns it, but it may still be the "Angeleno Heights Trolley Line" group that owned the car a decade ago. The car's status has been updated from "unknown" to "stored inoperable."</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-59532182100703554922024-02-17T10:18:00.001-06:002024-02-17T10:18:29.409-06:00Open Car Off the ListThanks to Murphy Jenkins of the Fort Smith Trolley Museum for confirming that Veracruz single-truck open car 6, which had been listed as being in a state of disassembly, has been permanently disassembled and can be considered to be gone. Components from the car are going into identical <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1830" target="_blank">car 9</a></b>, which is expected to be made operational (I believe converted to double-end operation) at FSTM. I would guess that parts will also make it into other restoration projects at FSTM, which is a bit unusual in that nearly all of their (now nine-car) collection is single-truckers.<div><br /></div><div>Car 6 was built in 1908 by Brill and retired in the mid-1960s, after which it spent a few decades under the ownership of the Texas Transportation Museum, where I believe its condition declined significantly before it went to FSTM in the mid-1990s. There are now three Veracruz single-truck open cars remaining: besides car 9, an ex-Trolleyville car acquired by FSTM in 2009, there's "<b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1846" target="_blank">car 001</a></b>" (formerly car 8) on display under a very nice pavilion in its home city and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1831" target="_blank">car 19</a></b>, another ex-Trolleyville resident which is in regular operation at the Illinois Railway Museum. Both of the other two cars were backdated by re-adding original-style deck roofs, so car 9 is the only one of the trio preserved in its later arch-roof guise.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-88162419657135185602024-02-15T22:44:00.000-06:002024-02-15T22:44:08.757-06:00...And One More<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPpdKHDi0J4JNAWMVcLC16dzTxuHPGKw9FZgnCJorxYnGyal2VJCbyHUKZl3vpPaEqtJ17BWdhFpOjuPeqA6NVn9mycVd8zRXuFiQ1htWnk0Te9EIVLG8tfa4UVGl1eBFaf__ftLnATR2-mDHXPl7P_BjB_DoNWZDNjgjhyMo1TEeoeZPgPP8ICmrGLFS/s640/ttc-4427-2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgPpdKHDi0J4JNAWMVcLC16dzTxuHPGKw9FZgnCJorxYnGyal2VJCbyHUKZl3vpPaEqtJ17BWdhFpOjuPeqA6NVn9mycVd8zRXuFiQ1htWnk0Te9EIVLG8tfa4UVGl1eBFaf__ftLnATR2-mDHXPl7P_BjB_DoNWZDNjgjhyMo1TEeoeZPgPP8ICmrGLFS/w200-h150/ttc-4427-2016.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Thanks to Wesley Paulson for tracking down yet another removal from the PNAERC list. This time it's Toronto PCC 4427, shown above in 2016, which was confirmed to have recently been scrapped. This car was plinthed in Morriston, Ontario, for years, but was removed sometime in mid-2022. Rumors had it transported back home to Toronto, but it sounds like it has indeed been cut up.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-28395974901519725842024-02-12T21:04:00.022-06:002024-02-13T09:35:11.746-06:00Three More Off the ListMany thanks to Wesley Paulson, who continues to track down cars on the "status unknown" list and send me updated information. Of the latest batch, one car, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1967" target="_blank">Lackawanna 4322</a></b>, is intact and undergoing restoration work in the Catskill Mountain Railroad's yard in Phoenicia, New York. But his other two updates are removals.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHeRUjaLhaHTvObb7mYolAEI3PuIdYCX3R12BHxw5Yfnn9UJo-IBJsxDWJC6aHcJgw2-IfD3P2eu8tO51Sfw29CTpY7hJFPNZMWtCz5jdJaJ8KBcF9vOxPSDIV264qbBDm6Whf-RyJZAKWWPIEoipb-dOI8iCmEk4w4WjVzD8Ch3QMvjxBNGzbtXSLvdI/s640/lackawanna-3565-2015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKHeRUjaLhaHTvObb7mYolAEI3PuIdYCX3R12BHxw5Yfnn9UJo-IBJsxDWJC6aHcJgw2-IfD3P2eu8tO51Sfw29CTpY7hJFPNZMWtCz5jdJaJ8KBcF9vOxPSDIV264qbBDm6Whf-RyJZAKWWPIEoipb-dOI8iCmEk4w4WjVzD8Ch3QMvjxBNGzbtXSLvdI/w200-h134/lackawanna-3565-2015.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Lackawanna 3565, a standard 1930 Pullman-built motor car shown above in a <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/99697338@N07/33089668028/" target="_blank">2015 photo</a></b>, had been stored derelict on the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern for years and was formally deaccessed by the tourist railroad back in 2022. At some point later that year or in 2023 the car was indeed cut up. It's been removed from the list.</div><div><br /></div><div>The second car to be removed is Worcester Consolidated Railway 038, a cab-on-flat locomotive homebuilt by the Worcester system in 1912. This car has always been on the Seashore Trolley Museum's roster - it was acquired by that museum way back in 1946 - but was listed as "disassembled," so I don't have any photos of it. I had increasingly suspected that Seashore may have written it off, and correspondence from their Executive Director, Katie Orlando, confirms that this is the case. This was the last Worcester Consolidated Railway car preserved in the US, though there are two arch-roof cars from the system known to <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/01/a-huge-thank-you-goes-out-to-wesley.html">still exist in Brazil</a></b>. I've taken 038 off the list, which reduces the number of Seashore cars on the PNAERC list to 190.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwXtOnTulOoUYXVGvP1hYdW1C2KI234O4rxXanamonPmICQ9bxFfZKJHYBN5nkaIC_pDgJPXRJtdv8VnrBTwyLI1UqPfGbXKoyfYObRWXabNecE2c7YfH7qzZtaOwWlEQJM15RBUhg3CopsMYwGA-Tp2XbOyLaLY0mOiuX1_W-4Zj_J2DAZNcfn9kgiWu3/s800/connco-2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="800" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwXtOnTulOoUYXVGvP1hYdW1C2KI234O4rxXanamonPmICQ9bxFfZKJHYBN5nkaIC_pDgJPXRJtdv8VnrBTwyLI1UqPfGbXKoyfYObRWXabNecE2c7YfH7qzZtaOwWlEQJM15RBUhg3CopsMYwGA-Tp2XbOyLaLY0mOiuX1_W-4Zj_J2DAZNcfn9kgiWu3/w200-h150/connco-2023.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The third car to be removed, shown above, is ConnCo box motor 2023. Our own webmaster, Jeff Hakner, confirms that this car was demolished by the Connecticut Trolley Museum at some point within the past few years. Car 2023 was homebuilt by ConnCo in 1910 and at the ends of its career was fitted with a diesel generator so that it could operate as a switcher after the wires came down. I recall seeing it in 2007 and taking the above photo, but the car may have been disposed of not long after that - I can't find any images more recent. With this, the CTM roster on PNAERC is now at 46 cars and the total number of cars on the list is 2,091.</div><div><br /></div><div>As an aside, speaking of Worcester 038, "disassembled" cars on the PNAERC list are an odd little subset. I have a policy that any electric car that's at a museum goes on the list, even if the museum doesn't consider it accessioned, because of how common it is for something that's deaccessioned to hang around for a long time, and sometimes become "re-accessioned." And as for whether a car is "at" a museum, I generally rely on the museum itself to make that call. This means that there's a handful of cars on the list that you'll be hard pressed to recognize, or in some cases track down at all. With the loss of 038, I think the only car on the list that's "completely" disassembled may be <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1258" target="_blank">Staten Island Midland 157</a></b>, owned by Branford but stored off-site in an indeterminate number of pieces. There's also <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1893" target="_blank">Veracruz 6</a></b> in Fort Smith; I'm honestly not sure how intact this car is, only that it's in some state of disassembly. There are a few cars that have been mostly reduced to a flat car, including <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1896" target="_blank">Los Angeles Railway 59</a></b> at Travel Town, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1719" target="_blank">Rochester 0243</a></b> at the New York Museum of Transportation, and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1697" target="_blank">St. Louis Public Service 850</a></b> at the National Museum of Transportation, which is notable in that its disassembly occurred quite rapidly and unexpectedly due to a tunnel lining collapse at the museum decades ago. Finally, there are a couple of cars like <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1482" target="_blank">Chicago Surface Lines 1467</a></b> at IRM and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1345" target="_blank">Des Moines 512</a></b> at Boone that have been reduced to a skeletal framework, but are at least generally recognizable as electric cars. How many of these cars will be reassembled again? Your guess is as good as mine.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-15936297081315056302024-02-08T22:24:00.002-06:002024-02-15T11:50:01.438-06:00Tracking Down MU Cars<div>Many thanks to our official researcher, Wesley Paulson, who has tracked down two more of our "mystery cars." In this case, it's Lackawanna MU motor cars 4602 and 4627, which were listed as belonging to Alberta Prairie Railway Excursions in Alberta, Canada. I say "were" because APRE helpfully confirmed that both cars have been scrapped. So, I've removed them from the list.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3I141b9q7xxiMzpM9kl6j6NLWl9YFEEgBIlM-BpXwFSm7f_VYE9ZS5wpCoMAgqcAqRS3WiZbBVaW8P79x64xTnlK1LCwVoxscCUI04Uh06zbIAn-0XjqprEl6NukmO61VOaZeMW-ztn167CqEkSL7PkHtp2Rgg0NGBQe8g4bo5DUBM-HZNA2itUaLeFh/s640/rpcx-3545.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ3I141b9q7xxiMzpM9kl6j6NLWl9YFEEgBIlM-BpXwFSm7f_VYE9ZS5wpCoMAgqcAqRS3WiZbBVaW8P79x64xTnlK1LCwVoxscCUI04Uh06zbIAn-0XjqprEl6NukmO61VOaZeMW-ztn167CqEkSL7PkHtp2Rgg0NGBQe8g4bo5DUBM-HZNA2itUaLeFh/w200-h133/rpcx-3545.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>And then there's the car shown here, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=938" target="_blank">Lackawanna 3545</a></b>, which until 2015 (give or take) was stored at the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum in Bellevue, Ohio. Rumor has it that the car was moved from that site to somewhere near Avon Lake, OH, but its current whereabouts are unknown. Anyone have any leads?</div><div><br /></div><div><b>EDIT:</b> Thanks to Pete Jedlicka, who has confirmed that car 3545 is, in fact, still owned by Buckeye Lake Trolley and is safely stored in a railroad yard in northern Ohio. Its status and ownership have been updated.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-64186386122463159612024-02-05T21:22:00.003-06:002024-02-06T11:12:51.823-06:00Tex-Mex RemovalsToday's update comes with a southwestern flavor. First, I've removed Texas Electric freight trailer 608 from the PNAERC list. This 1921 homebuilt interurban freight trailer has been on display in the middle of Van Alstyne, Texas, since 1996. For most of that time, it's been plinthed near TE box motor 501 and the two cars have been mostly ignored, which in the arid Texas climate isn't as fatal as it would be many other places. Recently, car 608 got some attention, and as of August 2023 it looked like this:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-CaUmSVGJx4gYMsAIHlROAqDgmZJ-siodbZZv3P1mlgJjA1JqUhE3gtp8zJKddGmnspLEYJ9GXVNjTFCqH12rN7AjsHOjbzzWt9WcZIWAV6iZkSm5uBPJZo0l4YlcpyPCgKeL9cInuee9CIG4I-q-m9DrdLkyPIYzojXvsvqOyGgDhDIBJTQ3nScwylf/s1093/vanalstyne608-2023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="1093" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0-CaUmSVGJx4gYMsAIHlROAqDgmZJ-siodbZZv3P1mlgJjA1JqUhE3gtp8zJKddGmnspLEYJ9GXVNjTFCqH12rN7AjsHOjbzzWt9WcZIWAV6iZkSm5uBPJZo0l4YlcpyPCgKeL9cInuee9CIG4I-q-m9DrdLkyPIYzojXvsvqOyGgDhDIBJTQ3nScwylf/w200-h92/vanalstyne608-2023.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>I have no idea what those boxes over the ends are. Anyway, thanks to Phil Randall, who sent me <b><a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/car-608-update-97447643" target="_blank">this link</a></b> to a Patreon page for car 608. It appears that the Northern Texas Traction Club was raising money to fix up car 608, but instead the city has mostly scrapped and rebuilt the car. As near as I can tell, the only original pieces left above floor level are some of the end and bulkhead framing and the car lines, which look like they were removed and then reattached atop a newly built steel-tube frame. The city also subtracted the baggage door from one side and added bus doors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTI2aPo3Jn2811rx2ynZx3GO7ojInsHgij8moq6YOplgE3QzCW4WPbsLSToFssui_Pn4uAjW78LwyPTIMM4Z75D1ePNx2U8C47D9J3jLxfzCSz1OKoO8ai0ridXtpBujd_yg_GII0lDy0eIXFoibGB21iwDVKU8XzWw4wnBvezqthj-ISPi_DDf-PzpHN/s1024/vanalstyne608.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTI2aPo3Jn2811rx2ynZx3GO7ojInsHgij8moq6YOplgE3QzCW4WPbsLSToFssui_Pn4uAjW78LwyPTIMM4Z75D1ePNx2U8C47D9J3jLxfzCSz1OKoO8ai0ridXtpBujd_yg_GII0lDy0eIXFoibGB21iwDVKU8XzWw4wnBvezqthj-ISPi_DDf-PzpHN/w200-h113/vanalstyne608.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>With almost nothing of the car's original fabric left, I don't consider it preserved. It's been removed from the list, following box motor 501, which was cut up <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/05/texas-updates.html" target="_blank">last year</a></b>. Thus ends the City of Van Alstyne's presence on the PNAERC list.</div><div><br /></div><div>The second piece of equipment to be removed is (or, rather, was) a bit more impressive. Ferrocarril Mexicano 1012 was a 155-ton six-axle boxcab locomotive built by GE in 1923. Since sometime in the 1970s, I believe, it was plinthed alongside the railroad in Ciudad Mendoza, near Veracruz in Mexico. It's shown here in a Google Street View image from 2012.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwzZ_OVsaGnBwVg96P1mgdxIca7_z_2MqESN1zeXfOtn6l15UOPtBq0cvCS00tDSCEMwOjJeyHXOjHhs5joxKk-CEQp7NPFYh8l0QBOO_GUTK1Iunjn8RPBX3e1fVWsFSGe9flpUC93XL-bhHmZazm7poLUkwEGKCRu-2miKXAx-by5c4w6mD41Uz18aT/s929/1012-2012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="929" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkwzZ_OVsaGnBwVg96P1mgdxIca7_z_2MqESN1zeXfOtn6l15UOPtBq0cvCS00tDSCEMwOjJeyHXOjHhs5joxKk-CEQp7NPFYh8l0QBOO_GUTK1Iunjn8RPBX3e1fVWsFSGe9flpUC93XL-bhHmZazm7poLUkwEGKCRu-2miKXAx-by5c4w6mD41Uz18aT/w200-h128/1012-2012.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>More recent Street View images had shown that the locomotive had disappeared from this spot, though, as described <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/11/locomotives-faring-poorly.html">last fall</a></b>. Thanks to our official researcher, Wesley Paulson, who tracked down <b><a href="https://youtu.be/xaviY0MwtQc?si=JQWsn0NN6EJrEZBV" target="_blank">this YouTube video</a></b> that was made 10 years ago. The caption information is in Spanish, which may be why I didn't find it, but it appears to show locomotive 1012 being hauled away in large chunks in April 2013. So, that's unfortunate. At least there are three other locomotives of this series still preserved, and none of those seem to be in any particular danger. With these removals, the PNAERC roster is currently at 2,096 pieces of equipment.Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-69903093293989890602024-02-04T17:00:00.008-06:002024-02-04T17:00:00.163-06:00Lake Shore Electric Car Scrapped<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOKdujnirfVtE5KIKxgq9zIp37DxSUWD3O69ANUgpHuIeREKkBBbN99_gBoIAMa0x3LAiBPyxaaf_pF5ExAX8fsTpnairkgXtnArKpeccmDl-mrHu91LYpLU3tLgH5hM4RFORknT3VnPewCLOl0CUt33ZYyBNk5jft5dzeYtoEmAsypQ_shzkvab45128M/s1200/lse171-2016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOKdujnirfVtE5KIKxgq9zIp37DxSUWD3O69ANUgpHuIeREKkBBbN99_gBoIAMa0x3LAiBPyxaaf_pF5ExAX8fsTpnairkgXtnArKpeccmDl-mrHu91LYpLU3tLgH5hM4RFORknT3VnPewCLOl0CUt33ZYyBNk5jft5dzeYtoEmAsypQ_shzkvab45128M/w200-h133/lse171-2016.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Thanks to Richmond Bates of the Seashore Trolley Museum for confirming that they have recently scrapped Lake Shore Electric 171, shown above in a 2016 photo.</div><div><br /></div><div>Car 171 was a 1918 Jewett-built interurban coach and ran for the LSE until the end in 1938, after which it became a diner in Monroeville, Ohio (<b><a href="https://hickscarworks.blogspot.com/2008/06/roadside-diners.html#Monroeville" target="_blank">see here</a></b> for a couple of 1979 photos of it as a diner). Seashore acquired the body in 1987 as part of their "Last Roundup" campaign of car body acquisition. Unfortunately, as you can probably tell from the above photo, car 171 was in wretched condition. The LSE Jewetts tended to suffer badly from body rot - I'm not sure whether this was the type of steel used or something else - and car 171 was badly deteriorated even before it arrived in Kennebunkport. It's hard to argue that the decision to dispose of the car wasn't a good one.</div><div><br /></div><div>There are now 16 LSE cars still in preservation including two other cars from this same series, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=483" target="_blank">one of which</a></b> has been cosmetically restored. As for Seashore, their roster on PNAERC now stands at 191 pieces of equipment. Car 171 is the second car scrapped since they started their collection rationalization effort.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-863760666723536742024-02-03T23:20:00.002-06:002024-02-03T23:20:38.576-06:00Jersey Shore Streetcar Threatened<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVOu7CChz657TJo_7dinZR_vvG9rZv48Kj0fKysv_9gq5bm4lcuNOGrnlPFuwYzlOauXX_-pHRgFflcPeOjsMDdauYYAtsXxTcUfze8QkoR-N4LWBrVaiwN8G_1cYmEIhKxsb9tBG8LOj5L3adOro9q924CGZwLOPDrboBI67qKE7losRjCp6XT3EX4-JU/s1200/jerseyshore14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1200" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVOu7CChz657TJo_7dinZR_vvG9rZv48Kj0fKysv_9gq5bm4lcuNOGrnlPFuwYzlOauXX_-pHRgFflcPeOjsMDdauYYAtsXxTcUfze8QkoR-N4LWBrVaiwN8G_1cYmEIhKxsb9tBG8LOj5L3adOro9q924CGZwLOPDrboBI67qKE7losRjCp6XT3EX4-JU/w200-h147/jerseyshore14.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The Jersey Shore Historical Society of Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, announced today on their <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/JSHISTORY1/posts/pfbid037SUB6zuXAUsK814uakDVDMNTGaxVW1JzgLuYvoQ1s6fXCSzv36uCVxB9nKw5m6RZl" target="_blank">Facebook page</a></b> that contrary to previous plans, they are not going to acquire the body of <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2234" target="_blank">Jersey Shore Street Railway 14</a></b>. The car is currently stored at the Peter Herdic Transportation Museum in Williamsport, PA, but that museum has deaccessed it and wants it gone by August 2024. JSHS had come to an agreement in 2021 to acquire the car (<b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2021/05/jersey-shore-car-identified.html">see here</a></b>) but they've decided that they need the funds elsewhere. If a new home is not found, the car will presumably be demolished.</div><div><br /></div><div>Car 14 is a body, of course, and it's far from pristine but it looks to be in better shape than a lot of bodies out there. According to information I've received, it was built in 1894 as an open car but its builder is unknown. It originally ran in Philadelphia, first for the Electric Traction Company, then for Union Traction, then for Philadelphia Rapid Transit, where it was numbered 86. It's not clear when it went to Jersey Shore, but on JSSR it was first numbered 101 and was later rebuilt as a one-man car and renumbered 14. The photo above was taken in 2021.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-35509161428525362492024-01-26T21:13:00.006-06:002024-01-26T21:14:35.784-06:00Welcome BackWesley Paulson is now the official research arm of PNAERC; he keeps digging, finding more information, and solving more mysteries!<div><br /></div><div>First for today, Wesley has confirmed that <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2030" target="_blank">Pennsylvania Railroad MP54 450</a></b> is, in fact, still in existence and in storage at the Wilmington & Western. It's been out of use since the 1990s and is in rough shape, but it's still very much there. So, after <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2024/01/more-list-clean-up.html">recently being removed</a></b>, it's now back.</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7sm6BdjGIY8Of3bUO8_fp1vcitgF-RhQ_zuK9UB3jubFqEynAtf4_bjoCr9HuOozvsL36CrpjYWhEBmetOCOh8uSqaqmrsp8DiCV-depgn7Xn9E-Se9SM-v2tfplrxoA2mpSaDdFs6IhSkYSY11RFetpQI0uCwDIx_GW1R1JBHZicByI4DVmffmm3K3s/s400/51794242572_707dce0ffa_w.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid7sm6BdjGIY8Of3bUO8_fp1vcitgF-RhQ_zuK9UB3jubFqEynAtf4_bjoCr9HuOozvsL36CrpjYWhEBmetOCOh8uSqaqmrsp8DiCV-depgn7Xn9E-Se9SM-v2tfplrxoA2mpSaDdFs6IhSkYSY11RFetpQI0uCwDIx_GW1R1JBHZicByI4DVmffmm3K3s/w200-h150/51794242572_707dce0ffa_w.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>A second car that's back on the list is pictured above in a <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/trackwalker/51794242572" target="_blank">2009 photo</a></b>. This is <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2219" target="_blank">Bellingham Birney 219</a></b>, confirmed to be in existence by Olin Anderson. The car is listed along with the Historic Railway Restoration collection, but only because it's physically located there - it's privately owned, I believe by someone from Acme, WA, which is where the above photo was taken. This car had been on the PNAERC list until <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/03/historic-railway-restoration.html">recently</a></b>, then was taken off, and now is back on. At least until more information turns up...</div><div><br /></div><div>And finally, Wesley found evidence that Alabama Power Company 103, a 1922 Cincinnati-built Birney that ran in Anniston, has been scrapped. It and one other car - a mystery Southern-built APC single-trucker that was removed from the list <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/06/single-trucker-added-single-trucker.html">last year</a></b> - were located on private property in Gadsden, Alabama. But the owner sold the property, and the streetcar bodies with it, and it sounds like the new owner has demolished the two cars (which were, to be sure, in rough shape). Car 103 has been taken off the list, reducing the total number of electric cars preserved in Alabama to four, one of which is currently <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2023/12/nows-your-chance.html">up for auction</a></b>.</div><div><br /></div><div>Many thanks to Wesley for all this information!</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-16790812542694937262024-01-25T22:44:00.002-06:002024-01-25T22:47:47.067-06:00That's a Lot of Subway CarsI received an email last week from Edrick Ang, who pointed out that there were a number of subway cars preserved on the New York City subway system that are not on the PNAERC list. This isn't a shock; for a while I've been meaning to comb through the vast nycsubway.org site and try to identify cars that have entered preservation in the last several years that were never added to my roster. Fortunately, Edrick was ahead of me on this and sent along a list. As such, I've now added a net total of 10 subway cars to the list - not quite as many cars as have been removed recently, but still quite a few.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnObWI6eaETt-9VS_806dbvmePaP_D0YI2eRrRquYr0LIf4DNlT5BZyQPh9gMGRfXrJ5ouqygfhvBopexEM5B0gnPlnnTACRtdPEdH0_yL_yKgaCaWa3QI9QpF4tA1qK_s3SsdF_nab92CrDo3s6yt8rD2IVmSC8ZrwUWFxc8oBPgPIHjaUZJn_btz_jZQ/s640/nycta3360.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnObWI6eaETt-9VS_806dbvmePaP_D0YI2eRrRquYr0LIf4DNlT5BZyQPh9gMGRfXrJ5ouqygfhvBopexEM5B0gnPlnnTACRtdPEdH0_yL_yKgaCaWa3QI9QpF4tA1qK_s3SsdF_nab92CrDo3s6yt8rD2IVmSC8ZrwUWFxc8oBPgPIHjaUZJn_btz_jZQ/w200-h150/nycta3360.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>First, NYCTA <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2267" target="_blank">3360</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2268" target="_blank">3361</a></b> comprise a R32-type stainless steel married pair built by Budd in 1964 (2022 photo above from <b><a href="https://www.nyctransitforums.com/topic/57405-final-r32-d-train-trips-12" target="_blank">here</a></b>). These cars were part of the last hurrah at the retirement of this type about two years ago, and at that time this pair was backdated to more-or-less original appearance, as you can see. This included the clever device of affixing vinyl stickers over the end door to replicate the original roll signs these cars had when new, which are long gone. This pair is now considered part of the NYCTA historic fleet.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeN_05LdIMkcRP1CCU3pgmEZRHY0fP1LW-czQML6TodNyJuvaSloPlLdMQ-aNYVo02zTnLGyj45VDlHwnlsq5SoxEpZaoc6phyphenhyphen8_ey_s25p3cH_Fs11qV_zfgtafYhS2cU56lxParwY6q9wH3bjiQtVfSNeQHEOqwVbYY94XSXhuI50q8dd0ig32M4W3m/s640/nycta4280.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgeN_05LdIMkcRP1CCU3pgmEZRHY0fP1LW-czQML6TodNyJuvaSloPlLdMQ-aNYVo02zTnLGyj45VDlHwnlsq5SoxEpZaoc6phyphenhyphen8_ey_s25p3cH_Fs11qV_zfgtafYhS2cU56lxParwY6q9wH3bjiQtVfSNeQHEOqwVbYY94XSXhuI50q8dd0ig32M4W3m/w200-h133/nycta4280.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Next up are NYCTA <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2269" target="_blank">4280</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2270" target="_blank">4281</a></b>, which comprise a married pair of "slant" R40-type cars built by St. Louis Car Company in 1968 (2015 photo above from <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/nyctransitforums/photos/a.336787969741740/781506118603254/" target="_blank">here</a></b>). These things are pretty homely, but they're certainly distinctive and I believe they're the last of this type. They were taken out of service in 2009.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh039HoKRFh2iE1C47owVLxP82xYS-LBksenffWaz8FEP-e7CD0ghfo76kkU_yV-LpKXrFV2x3aStucWqxuOLuVV_u-kFHmKgJqwBYSJo8ygCGs5538X4qlb6_GIoEgwgjXJMo3Wsr9Y1x4scrs203vb9RnNsMbJIRE8N8sZUm-P89Z0PFQeVjRShJRrC4I/s637/nycta4665.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="637" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh039HoKRFh2iE1C47owVLxP82xYS-LBksenffWaz8FEP-e7CD0ghfo76kkU_yV-LpKXrFV2x3aStucWqxuOLuVV_u-kFHmKgJqwBYSJo8ygCGs5538X4qlb6_GIoEgwgjXJMo3Wsr9Y1x4scrs203vb9RnNsMbJIRE8N8sZUm-P89Z0PFQeVjRShJRrC4I/w200-h151/nycta4665.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Then there's a mismatched pair: NYCTA <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2271" target="_blank">4460</a></b>, which is a straight-end R40A (also known as an R40M) built by St. Louis in 1969, is paired with car <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2272" target="_blank">4665</a></b>, a very similar-looking R42 built very shortly thereafter, likely the same year. Both of these cars had their original mates damaged or destroyed in the Williamsburg Bridge wreck of 1995, so following that they were mated with each other. Car 4665 is shown above in a 2021 photo from <b><a href="https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?159655" target="_blank">here</a></b>, complete with its as-delivered blue stripe restored to the car end.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_CMns7RujE6FrvT-O5B8J3aX9LHS7RbXINVvodr7iWLznytBU2xOLzJilgQv0TsB_izHU2y2kxKLnbAQxqStVdZ6sjt-gffcyTZaVVPVtYkHpTmp4pqILkJpaNXlScXSVaqD4zsS_eyypCCSNuKeypQJ6ZcCo-LNgvLmLbuukAA1dsp-L04UBflIkQVE/s636/nycta5240.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="636" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_CMns7RujE6FrvT-O5B8J3aX9LHS7RbXINVvodr7iWLznytBU2xOLzJilgQv0TsB_izHU2y2kxKLnbAQxqStVdZ6sjt-gffcyTZaVVPVtYkHpTmp4pqILkJpaNXlScXSVaqD4zsS_eyypCCSNuKeypQJ6ZcCo-LNgvLmLbuukAA1dsp-L04UBflIkQVE/w200-h151/nycta5240.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The last "modern" car is NYCTA <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2264" target="_blank">5240</a></b>, an R44-type cab car built by St. Louis in 1972. These R40's were delivered in four-car sets with two blind motors and two single-end motors, so this is the car from one end of one of those sets. A number of R44's are still in service on Staten Island, but this is one of the ones that was used on the main subway network and it was retired and put in the New York Transit Museum around 2013. The R44 order is a bit notorious in that it was the last production order built by St. Louis Car; there were so many issues with these cars that SLCC, which by 1972 relied almost exclusively on New York subway car orders to stay in business, went under soon after the order was completed.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMUfZ7QnWym1U3Tbvb6ka93DjW3M1xHNw1dIBHqz4L-jtY7Jlp-iQAd19faZ7j3b1JPuePap3JZsgnHLrylAvDCQNndG-P-y9e4z9SUyXDR1t31xtKG6SNIgM4iVJkS67UWQgdYLP2SGfVqZYiuXKwy-AjLo2gqc3hPLWYOKSOkUI_mW3_6iMwlMhtU-D/s640/nycta9308.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="381" data-original-width="640" height="119" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjMUfZ7QnWym1U3Tbvb6ka93DjW3M1xHNw1dIBHqz4L-jtY7Jlp-iQAd19faZ7j3b1JPuePap3JZsgnHLrylAvDCQNndG-P-y9e4z9SUyXDR1t31xtKG6SNIgM4iVJkS67UWQgdYLP2SGfVqZYiuXKwy-AjLo2gqc3hPLWYOKSOkUI_mW3_6iMwlMhtU-D/w200-h119/nycta9308.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>There are also three R33-WF "World's Fair" cars built by St. Louis Car Company in 1963 for the IRT division of the subway system. A lot of these cars seem to have just sort of hung around after the "Redbird" fleet was retired back in 2003, and as far as I can tell, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2265" target="_blank">9308</a></b> was one of those that was just "around" for a while. Then, in 2019, it was painted in as-delivered colors as shown above (photo from <b><a href="https://twitter.com/NYTransitMuseum/status/1595069584394321920" target="_blank">here</a></b>) and it's now quite obviously a part of the historic fleet.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5pbcDp2O9VqNn_W59MOguDoHwO7Gx9tjnCyMRdx6L4S5sUyZyewXzs2nMv_-w5jsSTtLJRsAB00daoJl-l55DG1DXdUZFKHz_-84x2nHClOsCJy8jQ04uakDQ61n_cMO7t1vFVCiHTXM2nuuGamwZOHREdx9MHhACxA5ocCI9vDFHncSGnHUSZUAu9hc/s640/nycta9310.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="640" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm5pbcDp2O9VqNn_W59MOguDoHwO7Gx9tjnCyMRdx6L4S5sUyZyewXzs2nMv_-w5jsSTtLJRsAB00daoJl-l55DG1DXdUZFKHz_-84x2nHClOsCJy8jQ04uakDQ61n_cMO7t1vFVCiHTXM2nuuGamwZOHREdx9MHhACxA5ocCI9vDFHncSGnHUSZUAu9hc/w200-h131/nycta9310.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The second R33-WF is identical car <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2266" target="_blank">9310</a></b>, shown above in a 2018 photo from <b><a href="https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?158892" target="_blank">here</a></b>. This is another R33 that seems to have just kind of hung around, but it has stayed in its end-of-service "Redbird" colors, albeit with its number plates moved down to their original height for whatever reason.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEzmen29Sx9uTApuu6R3kdiKMwVMYlS0hyphenhyphenHj1Zlm3DXDomHPUwG9ZSui-xVeP9OShO5Ghqp7b8ekpz7JM9x9rx2MRMoDrNcqVBRtqvsB9XzKata8PmDwJwurftvtrfFY8v_CIkSy6-RfhlDpZjVmFteiOhUkiAX8Xxu_jrKHN4_xIqbbyFZ_Oo_lAEYHC/s640/nycta9343.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="414" data-original-width="640" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEzmen29Sx9uTApuu6R3kdiKMwVMYlS0hyphenhyphenHj1Zlm3DXDomHPUwG9ZSui-xVeP9OShO5Ghqp7b8ekpz7JM9x9rx2MRMoDrNcqVBRtqvsB9XzKata8PmDwJwurftvtrfFY8v_CIkSy6-RfhlDpZjVmFteiOhUkiAX8Xxu_jrKHN4_xIqbbyFZ_Oo_lAEYHC/w200-h129/nycta9343.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The final R33-WF is <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2274" target="_blank">9343</a></b>, shown here in a photo from <b><a href="https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?132968" target="_blank">here</a></b> taken in 2011. I can't find any recent photos of this car, but supposedly it is indeed still around and is stored with the historic fleet at 207th Street Yard. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgtY4Owjh7GIQIm3eYdWm-L-vLMuzXm0M26KfgKY-sQLb9J27zLZwRKV7A-sjQfM6re4sPkBC1HnbfgkxGwxrrk8z5Mcvmtr5OSrGModu1NeQMUO_nbF1M-mTkFbk-PCuqNjfth35QrHhPAl1dwL_bspBIfzeg13ckVaIB2XoepvWYh1v_gn_eNZTagMH/s640/nycta51050.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="640" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBgtY4Owjh7GIQIm3eYdWm-L-vLMuzXm0M26KfgKY-sQLb9J27zLZwRKV7A-sjQfM6re4sPkBC1HnbfgkxGwxrrk8z5Mcvmtr5OSrGModu1NeQMUO_nbF1M-mTkFbk-PCuqNjfth35QrHhPAl1dwL_bspBIfzeg13ckVaIB2XoepvWYh1v_gn_eNZTagMH/w200-h127/nycta51050.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>And that brings us to surely the weirdest addition: the <i>Money Train</i> car. Yes, you read that right. When Columbia Pictures was filming the movie <i><b><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113845/" target="_blank">Money Train</a></b></i> in 1995, they purchased a retired R21 subway car and heavily modified it to represent some sort of revenue collection car (I'm not sure - I've never seen the movie). After filming ended, they donated the thing - fancifully numbered <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2273" target="_blank">51050</a></b> for the movie - to the New York Transit Museum. In recent years, it has been sitting in dead storage at Coney Island Yard. The above 2014 photo is from <b><a href="https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?150651" target="_blank">here</a></b>; it looks like the car retains its electrical equipment but I'm not sure. I'm a bit dubious about exactly how historic this thing is, but I can see the argument that it qualifies for the list. Although it's been modified, it's been modified as another (albeit made-up) type of subway car, not as a diner or a house.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_6fMLW5UvMgZDrM9v7o7bSjiFEKU8pMtLLqdwqDOxjcbZWTjFLGgadr5gZkvreYAcqUePguTJHeRAoXTBFlAdRHMmN8UpToVmd95VJZWEEbdF-B1lsR2-uL7FehQv841HanGblbuZe-S3EUH8yvoQl3MqpA7gSbvql0cNJhsSfM208dQAaE7oNdONlRz/s640/nycta9075.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_6fMLW5UvMgZDrM9v7o7bSjiFEKU8pMtLLqdwqDOxjcbZWTjFLGgadr5gZkvreYAcqUePguTJHeRAoXTBFlAdRHMmN8UpToVmd95VJZWEEbdF-B1lsR2-uL7FehQv841HanGblbuZe-S3EUH8yvoQl3MqpA7gSbvql0cNJhsSfM208dQAaE7oNdONlRz/w200-h150/nycta9075.JPG" width="200" /></a></div></div><div>Now, with all those additions, there's also one removal: NYCTA 9075, an R33-ML (Main Line) car built by St. Louis in 1963 as part of a married-pair set. This car sat on the front lawn of Queens Borough Hall from 2005 until 2022, but as described <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2022/06/new-york-subway-car-being-auctioned-off.html">here</a></b>, it was then auctioned off. When it was removed (the striking photo above was taken by Bill Wall), it was carted off to places unknown. Wesley Paulson has now supplied the answer: the car found a buyer looking to place it in their garden, and while it awaits shipment to this person, it's been in storage. Regardless, it sounds like it may qualify for my <b><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PfAu9Ao0uzxWgIL8STCpJVKHVF6bRgC5SCkAZaWphRQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">non-preserved</a></b> list (if I end up figuring out where it ends up) but not for PNAERC. So, I've removed it.</div><div><br /></div><div>With all these changes, I now have a total of 38 cars listed under the New York Transit Museum, 24 cars listed under NYCTA ownership, and 16 listed under Railway Preservation Corporation but effectively overseen by NYCTA. That comes to 78 cars preserved on the New York City subway system! That's more than all but the three largest museums - only Seashore, IRM, and Branford have more cars on the PNAERC list.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-15297838318439944182024-01-23T19:41:00.003-06:002024-01-24T23:09:13.504-06:00More RemovalsThanks again to Wesley Paulson, who has reached out to more people to dig up answers to <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2024/01/more-list-clean-up.html">questions</a></b> about cars on the list! The result, for today, is two more removals.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGetiE_ynMQyQMLS4p6Ru7p0dZpGv20VDUzbuwTwfnNPd9Ey26Qo7XKZcIeTBwv4xU3YP1rcu8gQsQrJLgjUuplakfSgVxXKAAuqOwevQYZFW4eQTGceYG4B6nE4oRCJ7OXPs_PqkCVUSX2ZbeU9WN55Xi4FUZc8iByJno37b69-dXA568L8NfwDU9icu5/s640/gs106-2007.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGetiE_ynMQyQMLS4p6Ru7p0dZpGv20VDUzbuwTwfnNPd9Ey26Qo7XKZcIeTBwv4xU3YP1rcu8gQsQrJLgjUuplakfSgVxXKAAuqOwevQYZFW4eQTGceYG4B6nE4oRCJ7OXPs_PqkCVUSX2ZbeU9WN55Xi4FUZc8iByJno37b69-dXA568L8NfwDU9icu5/w200-h150/gs106-2007.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The first is Groton & Stonington 106, a double-truck wedge plow built by Taunton in 1906 that's shown above in a photo I took back in 2007. Thanks to Richmond Bates of the Seashore Trolley Museum for confirming that car 106 - or what was left of it - is no longer there, and hasn't been around for some time. The car is presumed scrapped and has been taken off the PNAERC list. In theory, this was an historic piece - one of only three Taunton snow plows preserved and the only double-trucker (now only two Taunton plows remain, both double-truck Brooklyn cars at Branford). In practice, though, there obviously wasn't much left of the car.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>EDIT:</b> Many thanks to Paul Schneble, who dug up more information on this history of G&S 106. It turns out that it wasn't built by Taunton: it was built in the company shops by Marquardt Brothers of Groton, CT, in 1908 as express car 1, and apparently became plow 106 later. Seashore initially acquired the car as a representative Taunton product, but when its actual origins were discovered, the primary reason for keeping it evaporated and the car was later disposed of.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEeQDQhaVwgpTHJsNN6oH3mnIMnQUXcEddGZAUAc9Al77cJeREHG4ELbKkGLVZcmEJxoAEF39JjH8s47KqSyoLdp4PbrtXBP5kZ_3oChr3wHScUJ06tszx60axzFewBcKhhjteYf2ZMe3JJoZdc-khb4C5b9JcTp-vjfJBIporgS0pttcV3CbWqLqR-ps/s498/septa2131-2018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="498" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEeQDQhaVwgpTHJsNN6oH3mnIMnQUXcEddGZAUAc9Al77cJeREHG4ELbKkGLVZcmEJxoAEF39JjH8s47KqSyoLdp4PbrtXBP5kZ_3oChr3wHScUJ06tszx60axzFewBcKhhjteYf2ZMe3JJoZdc-khb4C5b9JcTp-vjfJBIporgS0pttcV3CbWqLqR-ps/w200-h150/septa2131-2018.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The other removal is the car shown above, Philadelphia PCC 2131, which David Lippincott says was sold by the Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway to a rancher in Oklahoma a few years back. The image above dates to 2018 and is from an eBay listing - <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2018/03/pcc-for-sale-in-colorado.html">read more here</a></b> - so now we know what ended up happening to the car. I've taken it off the PNAERC list, but who knows, maybe it will show up on the non-preserved electric cars list at some point, if I find out where it ended up. In the meantime, PPHSR has several other Philadelphia PCCs in better shape in storage at their site.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-32327662646519704892024-01-22T21:00:00.004-06:002024-01-22T21:00:26.254-06:00Several Mysteries SolvedMany thanks to Wesley Paulson and the others who have sent information on the "situation unknown" cars in the list I posted a couple of days ago. I've been able to answer a few of these questions with the information submitted.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYM6miUrQn5j-URZKTcZ-1Avuw6q3mZEEB0BxkUmVr0R0lip5p2k3HkaX1jvlA5ovTialwjaLTmWwqk3UknRilwzP_4xr1xitNyA0rdNlou7bgkCnQpYkHq7zeghSuGsdIls7FyD9Sv-e6a3B2FYUVATNaHnE8iVVqJvR_4R6LlWdJPBrEl1kOVknVQBH/s640/NP9-2019.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhYM6miUrQn5j-URZKTcZ-1Avuw6q3mZEEB0BxkUmVr0R0lip5p2k3HkaX1jvlA5ovTialwjaLTmWwqk3UknRilwzP_4xr1xitNyA0rdNlou7bgkCnQpYkHq7zeghSuGsdIls7FyD9Sv-e6a3B2FYUVATNaHnE8iVVqJvR_4R6LlWdJPBrEl1kOVknVQBH/w200-h134/NP9-2019.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>First, it's confirmed that Newport & Providence 9, the body of a double-truck open car built by Laconia in 1904, was demolished by the Seashore Trolley Museum in November 2023. The body - what there was of it - was already in a state of partial collapse, so this was pretty much inevitable. The car has been removed from the list. The above view from <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/maineprophoto/48641639081" target="_blank">here</a></b> dates to 2019; the below image is a still from a <b><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/PH5zIB6t4T8?si=Y92EMfUzipQCDX_a" target="_blank">video</a></b> of the car being dismantled. Thanks to Jack D for confirmation of this.</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOYs7kg3K0fGlHOeqff_ai1zaAPGW2_J_GeAXbj_mPXRjT3NnEz4A_mX04bTTXIx2AJ9t9BNmP18sFcHOoN3djOXrJa1jVRODOL3TBBrGnZYgyjvITjUYI9tefsiQ-MMSIZkM9NTUedEXBuYaTUyoDu4qVb14u7Wl9yIs-6Aj0jL9zvtGkLSxuDALcGC1/s343/NP9-demolish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="231" data-original-width="343" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivOYs7kg3K0fGlHOeqff_ai1zaAPGW2_J_GeAXbj_mPXRjT3NnEz4A_mX04bTTXIx2AJ9t9BNmP18sFcHOoN3djOXrJa1jVRODOL3TBBrGnZYgyjvITjUYI9tefsiQ-MMSIZkM9NTUedEXBuYaTUyoDu4qVb14u7Wl9yIs-6Aj0jL9zvtGkLSxuDALcGC1/w200-h135/NP9-demolish.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The second car removed from the PNAERC list is TTC subway cab-on-flat work car RT28, shown below in a photo from 2007 from <b><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_rees/839822269/" target="_blank">here</a></b>. This car and identical car RT29 were preserved at Halton County, which still has RT29 in its collection to represent the type. Thanks to Gord McOuat for confirming that RT28 was scrapped, something like a decade ago as it turns out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7imQjj4ujolQDHJhEizJuXGtUzNCy3SNMmJJLHv6z1BOU2tfdYuINm8FrvUeHweRo44yhqFdnT71YliTGvOuumF1sC0JgmE1-rL_esyL2VhftrcETQgxIB6JXcvn7DyR8qVCxVAlJO7L9HB7Qf1rlnjuZhgYSdqcWP7THLcOocCKRYh0PJLsuOHDC774/s640/rt28-2007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="640" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7imQjj4ujolQDHJhEizJuXGtUzNCy3SNMmJJLHv6z1BOU2tfdYuINm8FrvUeHweRo44yhqFdnT71YliTGvOuumF1sC0JgmE1-rL_esyL2VhftrcETQgxIB6JXcvn7DyR8qVCxVAlJO7L9HB7Qf1rlnjuZhgYSdqcWP7THLcOocCKRYh0PJLsuOHDC774/w200-h150/rt28-2007.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Gord also sent confirm that all three Canadian Railway Museum/Exporail cars - <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1510" target="_blank">Montreal Tramways 1953</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=454" target="_blank">Quebec Railway Light & Power 105</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1060" target="_blank">Toronto TP10</a></b> - are very much in existence and are stored indoors in an off-limits building at CRM. Gord even sent a sheet of technical information on TP10 that allowed me to flesh out its entry.Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-4644442176382952222024-01-20T22:41:00.005-06:002024-02-06T21:39:16.862-06:00More List Clean-up<div>Every so often, I try and go through and double-check some of the more questionable cars on the PNAERC list. For the most part, these are cars that definitely existed and were preserved at one point, but I can't find any information to corroborate their continued existence. <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2022/12/list-clean-up.html">This isn't the first time</a></b> I've gone through and removed cars whose existence is suspect enough that I no longer think they belong on the PNAERC list.</div><div><br /></div><div>This time, I've pulled six cars off the list. Four are Lackawanna MU trailers, cars 2310, 2313, 2316, and 2341. All four were formerly on the list as part of the sizable Reading Blue Mountain & Northern/Reading & Northern fleet of excursion cars - the four cars were even listed as having been renumbered as RBM&N 314, 313, 312, and 311 respectively - but during my recent photo project I wasn't able to find any trace of them online. I'm not certain that they've been scrapped, but I can't find any evidence that they're still around, and for a highly visible railroad like the R&N that strikes me as peculiar. For the time being, they're off the list.</div><div><br /></div><div>There's also Pennsylvania Railroad 450, an MP54 that last I knew was owned by the Wilmington & Western. According to my notes it had been damaged by arsonists, and I can't find any recent evidence of this car either, so it's possible that it's been scrapped. I've removed it from the list until I can find definite information one way or another. <b>EDIT:</b> This car is still around and is <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2024/01/welcome-back.html">back on the list!</a></b> </div><div><br /></div><div>And the final car is a Mobile Light & Railroad single-trucker from Mobile, Alabama. About 20 years ago, this car was saved by the Museum of Mobile and put into storage at the Alabama State Docks. Its number was unknown, but it was a 120-series Birney built by St. Louis in 1919. Anyway, I can't find any evidence that it still exists. This one is a bit more likely to still be there - it wouldn't be the first car that a historical society has squirreled away and largely forgotten about - but as little information as I have on it to begin with, I'm not confident that it's still there at the docks. Unless someone can provide information to the contrary, it's off the list. <b>EDIT:</b> Wesley Paulson discovered that the Museum of Mobile deaccessed the car in 2009 and gave it to the city, which at the time put it in a municipal lot somewhere. The museum hasn't heard anything about the car lately and it's probably a safe bet that the car has been scrapped.</div><div><br /></div><div>Interested in helping? <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?sel_match_fld=status&sel_match_val=situation" target="_blank">Click here</a></b> for a list of the cars whose current status is entirely unknown to me. Many of these are certainly in existence - I don't have any doubt that <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=454" target="_blank">QRL&P 105</a></b> is still around, for example - I just don't know what their conditions are. Current information on any of these cars - or, for that matter, on the cars listed above that have been removed from the list - would be very helpful.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>EDIT:</b> The status of several of the cars at the link has been determined - <b><a href="https://pnaerc.blogspot.com/2024/01/several-mysteries-solved.html">click here</a></b>.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-33034250634289271332024-01-12T12:30:00.013-06:002024-01-14T15:46:51.000-06:00"Almond Joy" Going to Trolley Museum of New York<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7BQtMAqu2TSB8mm7bcUQOeKhzT3c5ILcWLWOvEIAdiUxdW1iAq0hhM2nt9u1aHxmcSC0tIRpbW9Ft7KG2F01UOVaVbskTyrsYJEpM7pkbEpYICrYRgEPNLK3dTBoUBf8fqxDqLIUbt5i35KMoymwVR7pMcj0FrUzQg7mQS3wFjAfElIIyYU4BVRG1qq9q/s640/septa618.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7BQtMAqu2TSB8mm7bcUQOeKhzT3c5ILcWLWOvEIAdiUxdW1iAq0hhM2nt9u1aHxmcSC0tIRpbW9Ft7KG2F01UOVaVbskTyrsYJEpM7pkbEpYICrYRgEPNLK3dTBoUBf8fqxDqLIUbt5i35KMoymwVR7pMcj0FrUzQg7mQS3wFjAfElIIyYU4BVRG1qq9q/w200-h134/septa618.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Congratulations to the Trolley Museum of New York, which announced on its <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/trolleymuseumny/posts/pfbid02q47NKZeo9CNCGfeAf44BzMV3PiADBtd8LwoFJR4XtRMiV3JCuByuYqjaD5y7AirKl" target="_blank">Facebook page</a></b> that it has acquired <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1808" target="_blank">SEPTA 618</a></b> from Seashore. Car 618 is one of two iconic "Almond Joy" cars from the Market-Frankford Elevated in Philadelphia that have made it into preservation. It was built by Budd in 1960, one of a subset of single-unit cars in an order mostly made up of married pairs.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the early 1990s, several "Almond Joy" cars were transferred to the ex-Red Arrow line to Norristown. The Norristown line was having trouble maintaining service levels with their increasingly antiquated fleet of native Strafford and Bullet cars, so a few "Almond Joys" were transferred to provide interim service (several ex-CTA 6000s were also acquired at about the same time for the same reason). Since these cars were originally 5'2.5" gauge, the transferred cars were put on trucks salvaged from PATH MP51-series "K-cars" that were being scrapped at the time.</div><div><br /></div><div>Car 618 wasn't one of the cars that went to the Norristown line, but when it was retired from service on the Market-Frankford and went to Seashore in 2002, a pair of the K-car trucks went with it. They'd been set aside by Bob Hughes in 1996 when the "Almond Joy" cars were removed from Norristown line service. (Thanks to Mark Wolodarsky for the corrected information! Mark also sent along a link to a <b><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/trolley-museum-of-new-york-almond-joy-618" target="_blank">GoFundMe where you can donate toward the preservation of car 618</a></b>.)</div><div><br /></div><div>Car 618 has remained on a truck trailer for the intervening two decades, though I have no idea whether it's the same truck trailer on which it arrived. The photo above was taken by yours truly in 2016, and interior photos posted by TMNY show that the car's interior has remained in good condition. Car 618 is well suited to TMNY's needs: with its K-car trucks, it can be towed on the museum's line, and its stainless steel construction lends it to outdoor storage without suffering much from the weather. The distinctive rooftop humps that give this type the "Almond Joy" nickname preclude the installation of trolley poles, also making it a good fit for TMNY, which doesn't have overhead.</div><div><br /></div><div>I haven't updated the car's owner - I'll do that when it arrives in Kingston - but the "for sale" note has been removed from its PNAERC listing. This is the third car recently deaccessed by Seashore to find a new home, following <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2026" target="_blank">MBTA 3283</a></b> (now in Shelburne Falls) and the <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=368" target="_blank">"Berkshire Hills"</a></b> (due to move to Shelburne Falls in 2024).</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-4955054145978365012024-01-04T23:06:00.004-06:002024-01-05T09:01:45.577-06:00Modern MUs at ExporailMany thanks to Jacob Wiczkowski, who pointed out that I had missed a pair of electric cars that entered preservation this past October: <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2262" target="_blank">Exo 400</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2263" target="_blank">Exo 485</a></b>. They have now been added to the list.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivr8fGRj5MqTygOmdaoWvsvlV6ExPMN4KJgdjQ_vXwum0Rk-Py9SyLBx_DXr81bF5U_oJ57fpsO4d8i72HdksMfW9AjvFUXFxYU8xpqbxEuhEOcHvfDi1oz0I6aoBMgLFKzkGPFYL2qYMemmb4L26PFKNcMsXSHnme1U4s795WjnVhtIypBTYsg_1y7kKa/s640/mr-90-crm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="640" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivr8fGRj5MqTygOmdaoWvsvlV6ExPMN4KJgdjQ_vXwum0Rk-Py9SyLBx_DXr81bF5U_oJ57fpsO4d8i72HdksMfW9AjvFUXFxYU8xpqbxEuhEOcHvfDi1oz0I6aoBMgLFKzkGPFYL2qYMemmb4L26PFKNcMsXSHnme1U4s795WjnVhtIypBTYsg_1y7kKa/w200-h133/mr-90-crm.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>The cars are shown above, in a photo from <b><a href="https://www.railpictures.net/photo/844041/" target="_blank">this page</a></b>, being delivered to the Canadian Railway Museum (aka Exporail) in Delson-Ste. Constant, PQ, this fall. The cars are MR-90 type mainline commuter cars set up in good old motor-trailer fashion, with car 400 representing the fleet of four-motor cars while 485 is a control trailer. These MR-90 cars were built by Bombardier in 1994-1995 and replaced the old GE boxcabs and 1950s MU cars, many of which are now in preservation. But Montreal is completely rebuilding the Deux-Montagnes line, so this fleet was retired <i>en masse</i> in late 2020.</div><div><br /></div><div>The entire fleet of 58 of these cars was scrapped except for these two, so they're unique and moderately significant in that respect. I'd also point out that their most recent operator, Exo, probably represents the shortest railway name on the PNAERC list. I have almost no mechanical information on these cars - they ran on 25kV AC and apparently used Siemens AC traction motors, but that's all I've got. If anyone can contribute control, motor, truck, brake, or air compressor information, I'd be very much obliged.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-62401775793884158862024-01-03T22:28:00.000-06:002024-01-03T22:28:16.718-06:00Equipment Moving Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_y4ePgINHeLx_wv3fESsqQbF73_SWzDmiTunWLuivDVnGNDtIuSB5OuYZFZqKWb1DGNLw-VtTuxqriR1cJ0X-TsWn-VMW8STdhXfUHKsfLB5d4CGfX-E3-gaTFbsfC8HjLASE2-Sf-tjRawdZkbBCDS6I7WBrSfID60Q1Dykp_1W40Qx1g1CGO89vUJ17/s800/drm-278.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_y4ePgINHeLx_wv3fESsqQbF73_SWzDmiTunWLuivDVnGNDtIuSB5OuYZFZqKWb1DGNLw-VtTuxqriR1cJ0X-TsWn-VMW8STdhXfUHKsfLB5d4CGfX-E3-gaTFbsfC8HjLASE2-Sf-tjRawdZkbBCDS6I7WBrSfID60Q1Dykp_1W40Qx1g1CGO89vUJ17/w200-h113/drm-278.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>Equipment is moving! The higher-profile equipment move involved <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=688" target="_blank">New York Central 100</a></b>, the first S-motor, and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=694" target="_blank">New York Central 278</a></b>, the last T-motor. These two arrived at their new home in Danbury, Connecticut, yesterday (January 2nd) and were unloaded today. The photos above and below come from the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/railfanmag" target="_blank">Railfan & Railroad Facebook page</a></b>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTc3FzWk9GHMf4iqok2u1RZf_73IRo__SQGdlCSGsq2e7buq4Raa1w-GaapF_Aa5Mcp0ARE1t3OA3e8z353gynzu-h2Vy_H5_lvD8IJ4Dw4BRGuQteFOg9zwE8wrYMByy-gOnwwKSQ4n4w73mo35X0W25UTpT3JgN_1-vklJDBa3tc7GiKXn9RDwCwnH7i/s800/drm-100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTc3FzWk9GHMf4iqok2u1RZf_73IRo__SQGdlCSGsq2e7buq4Raa1w-GaapF_Aa5Mcp0ARE1t3OA3e8z353gynzu-h2Vy_H5_lvD8IJ4Dw4BRGuQteFOg9zwE8wrYMByy-gOnwwKSQ4n4w73mo35X0W25UTpT3JgN_1-vklJDBa3tc7GiKXn9RDwCwnH7i/w200-h113/drm-100.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>The T-motor was placed back on its trucks, but the S-motor was deposited on a flatcar. Photos suggest that the S-motor took some serious damage to both its body and underframe while being extracted from its longtime home in Glenmont, New York, so that may have something to do with it. It looks like the T-motor mercifully fared better.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUD6MoeLkxXj13kmGt5gEGD-PZQSMisWyATRtDsOcv6beWjZhGB4eVF6a-eyaZYvMzGA9Z1_HCGuiGuCJ3RWL6Yvxy3nPtKEw1UWxHBGPlf_2JTdpCNIOZ-_ol0YL0mBHX4y0r98dwWXeAm6vOpTyUAPz-g2Q0Sztbmh1m_nwp0tjudvyyv90TTpfVv3t/s800/asrm-3cars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="113" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUD6MoeLkxXj13kmGt5gEGD-PZQSMisWyATRtDsOcv6beWjZhGB4eVF6a-eyaZYvMzGA9Z1_HCGuiGuCJ3RWL6Yvxy3nPtKEw1UWxHBGPlf_2JTdpCNIOZ-_ol0YL0mBHX4y0r98dwWXeAm6vOpTyUAPz-g2Q0Sztbmh1m_nwp0tjudvyyv90TTpfVv3t/w200-h113/asrm-3cars.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>And at the other end of the country, the Arizona Street Railway Museum / Phoenix Trolley Museum has managed to extract two of their Phoenix Street Railway city cars, <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1237" target="_blank">PSR 504</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=1241" target="_blank">PSR 116</a></b>, from a building on the south side of downtown Phoenix. The two cars had been stored there since the museum was evicted from its longtime home at Deck Park at the end of 2017, but they're now at the museum's new home along Grand Avenue northwest of downtown. The above photo is from the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/phoenixtrolley" target="_blank">museum's Facebook page</a></b> and shows (L-R) car 504, car 116, and <b><a href="http://www.bera.org/cgi-bin/pnaerc.pl?detail=2233" target="_blank">car 509</a></b>, which was rescued in 2020 and still more house than streetcar. The last time three Phoenix city cars were seen together was probably 1948. All of the equipment in this post - NYC 100 and 278, and the three Phoenix cars - have had any "stored off-site" notations removed.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-642188372697533212024-01-02T22:59:00.003-06:002024-02-20T23:11:41.883-06:00Photos Needed<div>We're always looking for updated photos of equipment on the PNAERC list, or at least updated photos of equipment that looks different than it used to (for better or, in some cases, for worse). But more than anything, we're on the lookout for cars with no photographic coverage at all.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>You can help!</b> Do you have photos of any of the below cars taken within the last decade or two? Please submit them so that we can add them to the PNAERC list and make it more complete. <b>Thank you!</b></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Boone & Scenic Valley - Metra 1551</div><div>Brooks Preservation Society - DL&W 3236</div><div>Canada Science & Technology Museum - Toronto Ry 64, BCER 1235</div><div>Canadian Railway Museum - QRL&P 105, TTC TP10</div><div>Denver Rail Heritage Society - DT 83</div><div>Edmonton Radial Railway Society - ERR 31, SMR 35, ERR 38, ERR 53, SMR 54, Calgary 60, Sask 62, ERR 65, ERR 73, LSR 202, TTC 4349</div><div>Electric Railway Historical Association, Perris, CA - LARy 34, LARy 44, SDER 201</div><div>Fort Smith Trolley Museum - FSL&T 10, CT 305</div><div>Gomaco - basically every PCC in storage in Ida Grove, Iowa</div><div>Halton County Radial Railway - TTC 4053</div><div>La Crosse County Historical Society - MVPS 12</div><div>Middletown & Hummelstown - CTA S372, DL&W 4307</div><div>McKinney Avenue Transit Authority - DR&T 183, DR&T 189, DR&T 323</div><div>Museum of the American Railroad - Metra 1548, 1585, 1608, 1652, 1661</div><div>National Museum of Transportation - UR 165, SLPS 850</div><div>Oregon Electric Railway Historical Society - Fresno 74</div><div>Pacific Southwest Railway Museum - DL&W 3583 (aka SD&A 251)</div><div>Penn Ohio Electric Railway - PAT 1639, PAT 1728</div><div>Port Authority of Cleveland - PRR 2</div><div>San Diego Electric Railway Association - SDER 128</div><div>San Francisco Municipal Railway - SFMR 1115, SFMR 1130</div><div>Seashore Trolley Museum - NYSR 113, WF&O 60, MBTA 3338, MBTA 3344</div><div>South Shore Line Museum Project - CSS&SB 351</div><div>Southern California Railway Museum - LARy 807, LARy 836, LARy 1003, LARy 9007</div><div>Symco Union Thresheree, Wisconsin - CSL 1278</div><div>Travel Town - LARY 59</div><div>United Railroad Historical Society - PRR 413, PRR 453, DLW 2406, DLW 3541</div><div>Western Railway Museum - Stockton 52, Key 186, PG&E 41</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Note 1: I left private owners off this list; I also left off the collection in Windber, since it's going away soon anyway!</i></div><div><i>Note 2: It is distinctly possible that some of the cars listed here have been scrapped. If you have any information regarding cars listed here that no longer exist, please drop me a line!</i></div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4998747004679589738.post-69249680143856215832023-12-31T08:00:00.010-06:002023-12-31T08:00:00.239-06:00New Year, New Look<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJx2K672LnBhOaEKKOYqeaJDAXho0sD8c3h70ked-VsyeWlUx9I5Ry-ilKp0SyyrKKGVroc5PeBVySRvH2d9PSlgTZi188MaWhcaXCOv2D01EimpUu5BRTwwr30fXgh-l6MTGZ234Ydo2MqvvqAB3vKD2TdXFpvSSBGTinEafCoEUu2oSJihshGIFrNVtx/s985/PNAERC-photo-update.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="738" data-original-width="985" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJx2K672LnBhOaEKKOYqeaJDAXho0sD8c3h70ked-VsyeWlUx9I5Ry-ilKp0SyyrKKGVroc5PeBVySRvH2d9PSlgTZi188MaWhcaXCOv2D01EimpUu5BRTwwr30fXgh-l6MTGZ234Ydo2MqvvqAB3vKD2TdXFpvSSBGTinEafCoEUu2oSJihshGIFrNVtx/w200-h150/PNAERC-photo-update.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div>As we end 2023 and begin 2024, I want to extend a huge THANK YOU to our webmaster, Jeff Hakner, for uploading some 4,000 new image and video links to the PNAERC database! Previously, we hadn't updated any photos to the database since 2014, so any cars added since then lacked photos. And even for equipment that was already listed at that point, a lot of the previews (thumbnails) didn't work right, so the standard "list view" as shown above only included thumbnail images for maybe 60-70% of cars.</div><div><br /></div><div>Now, that number is about 95%, and nearly all of the bad photo and video links should be fixed. Tracking down pictures for all this equipment has taken me six months and about 170 or 180 hours, but it is a big improvement. Thanks, too, to everyone who has sent in updated photos over the years! Keep them coming - the next time we do a photo update like this, we'll be grateful for any recent shots.</div>Frank Hickshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05577228910617578573noreply@blogger.com0