1702 (Formerly Photos)

[John Swindler]

>From: Kenneth and Tracie Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: 1702 (Formerly Photos)
>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:31:36 +0000
>
>
>
>HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:
>
>
> > 1702 had a strange 'whine' when the power was applied. It did ride level 
>and
> > true. Perhaps it had truck rebuilding done at some point in its life. It 
>did
> > last until scrapped around 1981.
>
>Two questions:
>
>Do you recall 1730 (the Sunburst Car) being particularily noisy going 
>around
>curves during the 1979-80 period? If so, bad wheels or ?
>
>Also, why was a true 1700 scrapped while there were still air cars on the
>property? Was it wrecked or did some fatal flaw reveal itself?
>
>Ken J.
>

"Trolley Fare" for Nov-Dec 1999, pp 13 notes that 1702 became the basis for 
car 4000.  A detailed history of Pittsburgh's PCC cars has appeared in this 
publication over past year+.

John S.
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