1602

[HRBran99 at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/24/00 8:16:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
johnfbromley at home.com writes:

<< 1602 was scrapped in 1968 at South Hills in a group of 29.  YThe data is
 from Dave Hamley's series on Pittsburgh PCC Car Disposition, Part 3, in
 PTM's "Trolley Fare".
  >>
"PCC-From Coast to Coast," by Schneider & Carlson indicates 1967 as the year 
of scrapping, along with 63 other cars. The Schneider/Carlson book does, 
however, contain a disclaimer concerning disposition dates. At any rate the 
car was "lost" sometime in 1967 or 1968.

<<Why "as usual" by Roberta Hill?  Who is that person - I've seen other photos
credited, none very spectacular.>>

Roberta Hill, aka Carbarn Sally, God rest her soul, was one of the most 
active and adventuresome traction photographers of the 1960s and 1970s. She 
took thousands of photos which documented the ending years of PCC and 
trackless trolley operations in the US and Canada. While her photos echo the 
photographic technology of her era and thus may not seem spectacular when 
compared to a modern, top of the line, digital camera, she had a way of 
incorporating neighborhoods, people, and objects into them. (Talk about a run 
on sentence!) Ken Josephson can fill in the fine details of her life and 
photography.

HrB