El Paso PCCs for Sale

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	PCC 1138 at the PTM is an *Identical Twin* to 1000-1099 and even 
car #100; 1138 just keeps her hair brushed a little better as there is 
none haning across the destination sign (single pane destination as 
opposed to split destination sign - the  o-n-l-y  difference!).

	Additionally, the car is standard gauge  --  much easier to make 
standard out of wide but more difficult to make wide out of standard!

	While PTM policy *apparently* allows for the collecting of 
streetcars in general, their first concern is Western PA and the Ohio 
River Valley area.  The NOPSI car came in because it is wide gauge and 
the acquisition terms were extremely favorable and policy wasn't as 
delineated in those days!

	And the car *could* be painted any color desired - no law against 
it - maybe it should be painted in psychedelic colors to reveal the car 
that got away from . . . uh . . . you know who!

Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:
> 
> Ron Dawson sent a message to Trolleycars.com that some 1937 El Paso
> (ex-San Diego) PCCs will be available for sale. I wonder if PTM would
> consider a car from this group to represent the long lost first series
> Pittsburgh PCCs? It wouldn't be right to paint it as a PRCo. car, but
> even in El Paso livery, it could serve as a representative of what
> Pittsburgh's initial PCCs were like. These cars have never seen road
> salt. Ken J.

James B. Holland
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