Was just reading an article on the Pittsburgh Post Gazette website about an elderly gentleman who has 40 old street cars collected near Windber, Pa. near Johnstown. He buys old ones and resells some to cities and places that want to fix them up and run them. Pretty cool.
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Unfortunately they appear to be in dreadful condition. I'm not sure whether he was
successful reselling any of the PCCs.
lewrail
Interesting article and video. I remember the PCC cars iN Pittsburgh. Me being a country boy, when I was going to Penn Tech, I almost got run over by one when I mistakenly stepped out onto the street at one of the triangular corners that hit Liberty Avenue. I was watching the wrong light. Not hard to do at those sharp angles.
As an aside, I had no idea Berwind Coal Company built their own cars.
was in Wyoming last week, traveling Hwy 191 between Jackson and Rock Springs (in the middle of nowhere) and saw three NJ Transit subway cars parked alongside the road at a construction company's HQ. 1 on the west side of the road and two on the right. I just about fell off my Harley laughing.
I've seen worse off automotive steel "saved"
I wonder if any are the old Red Devil interurbans?
The one that raced the plane should be found and saved. If it could be
Only the "Flying Hamburger" had faster regular route speeds in the early 30's
I'd like to see the History Channel start up a train restoration program!
They can start with wmsrr. 2662 rebuild of c&o 1218. What a project!