County Line Siding

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Pg. 133, bottom photo, *PCC The Car That Fought Back* shows County Line
Siding and both the experimental PCC interurbans, 1613 and 1614, at a
meet here.  I assume the cameraman is looking north.  In the photo of
Volkmer's on Daves site, it appears as though the slope is downhill
facing north, and this appears almost level.
	Note, too, the Ohio Brass type retriever on 1614.  This was later
replaced with an Earll retriever as was the one on 1613.
	But poor 1613 had all interurban gear stripped by the mid 1950s except
for the roof light and pilot - even the retriever was removed and a
standard city catcher was centered above the windows as on city-16s. 
The original Clark B-2 trucks had some weight added to them for the
initial tests to Washington; these were replaced by the experimental
B-3s from under 1230 or 1278 but were removed and apparently replaced
with the original weighted Clark B-2s because motormen said the ride of
this car was extremely hard and they didn't like it.
	Car 1614 was fitted with one set of experimental B-3s from under the
12s but she, too, lost these trucks to standard Clark B-2s by the mid
1950s if not sooner.  She did retain the Earll retriever at least until
it gave out, probably the early 1960s.
	On the adjacent pages of this book are the experimental B-3s - two
spring pots on each side of the truck.

James B. Holland
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        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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