West Penn 722

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Using a toilet on PTM?  Well, I guess if the customer is a railfan and doesn't want to
get off the car.

You know, the other day I was studying a picture of a Lehigh Valley Transit 800 class car
(maybe 806, 807 or 809 but certainly not 800 because the item in question was moved) and
noted that the toilet was at the rear of the car on left side, i.e. right over the third
rail beam!  Seemed like an illuminating experience to me.  Does anyone out there have
enough knowledge of the prewar 1949 LVT operations to know if toilets were locked when
running over the P&W?

Jim Holland wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> Fred W. Schneider III wrote:
>
> > Galbraith incorrectly used the present tense.  There are two West Penn bodies at
> > Arden, 722 and 739.  Would you care to give till it hurts?  It might be possible to
> > do the job for the value of a house in Sausalito.
>
>         Cheeze whiz!  Wouldn't want to hazard a guess at the median price of a
> house there  --  over $500,000.00 probably (that's what they are selling
> for in my area - 2-bedroom, basement ground-level, houses touch on two
> sides, war-time construction, no insulation (latter not really needed
> but it is disconcerting listening to the neighbor chomp on meals!))
> Supposedly, our real estate market, after jumping 20% in the last year,
> has gone totally flat - sales dropped precipitously and prices leveled
> off - confusing the economic experts!
>
>         I knew they had the two but forget which one came first.  And knew that
> one was in not-so-nice shape.  And understood that one would
> *donate-organs* to the other.  But a latrine (as in Ed's post?!?!::>>))
> I know, it was a part of the historical car and needs to be there for
> that purpose.  Hope the lines to the throne aren't too long on each trip
> at PTM!!::>>)))!!
>
> > West Penn 832 was partly
> > reworked until the perpetrator had an untimely death ... it is one of three cars
> > that the museum hopes to finish with grant money.  There has been talk of doing
> > three cars to finish the previously started and languishing work before anything
> > else is begun ... that was before PST 14 was brought in for new lipstick and got a
> > facelift instead.
>
> > Jim Holland wrote:
>
> > > Greetings!
>
> > >         On another mail list, the February-1968 issue of *Traction & Models*
> > > was mentioned.
> > >         In the editors column "Electroliners" is the following and I
> > > quote:::::::
>
> > >         "Rey Galbraith tells us that some of the members of PRMA have purchased
> > > the last Pittsburgh high-floor car, scrapped the body, and are
> > > installing the braking and electrical equipment along with the Brill
> > > trucks on the West Penn #722 interurban which is now at the Museum site
> > > at Arden, Pa. . . . ."
>
> > >         How is WP 722 coming along?
>
> James B. Holland
>
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