Carbarn Sally Notes

[Kenneth and Tracie Josephson]

The following is from a message I sent to Ed Lybarger a few days ago.
Since many of us have our favorite individual Pittsburgh PCC cars, I
thought it would be fun to kick this around and see the changes we
noticed in "our" cars over the years.

> It is interesting to see how individual Pittsburgh cars
> changed from year to year. 1727 seems to have been one of Roberta's
> favorite cars. She even took a picture of it passing a toy store with
> the address of 1727. I wonder what her reaction was when 1727 was
> wrecked at the tunnel?
> 
> Another Roberta favorite seemed to be 1601. It was retired after being
> damaged in the same accident that put 1614 (one of my favorites) out of service. It appears
> the Railways painted 1601's dash from "white face" to red in the early
> sixties. PAT apparently touched up its front end after that. But the
> persistent rust directly above the center of the front anti-climber
> continued to push through the paint. The car must have been really rough
> at the end.
> 
> I also noticed that some "city" PCCs carried roll signs which read
> "Library" or "Drake" as opposed to the "interurban" cars which usually carried
> "Shannon-Library" or "Shannon-Drake." I have pictures of interurban PCCs displaying both
> variations at different times.
> 
> Ken J.