PCC 1700 Crosstown Route

[EDWARD H. LYBARGER]

No law required the roof lights...the older cars had none.  These were added
as a safety factor in a day of increasing automobile use.  The lights and
pilots (they're not cow catchers; they kill cows!) were never removed from
the cars.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: PCC 1700 Crosstown Route


>On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, ray wrote:
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>> Hello. I just finally purchased PCC Coast to Coast. This book states that
>> 1700 ran on the 22 Crosstown line for a couple of months. Is this true,
and
>> if so does anyone know why? I also noticed that the car did not have the
>> metal "cow catcher" pilot. The Pittsburgh trolley Pictorial shows  1700
>> with the metal pilot. I thought these cars came this way from St. Louis.
>> Did PRCo add the pilot and roof light?
>
>My reference materials are at home... was 1700 one of the "interurban"
>cars? (specially equipped for the runs to Washington/Charleroi, as
>apparently required by law)
>
>That would explain the pilot and roof light; Do I also recall correctly
>that they were removed after the cars were no longer being used for those
>services (read: 1953)?
>
>-D
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