Car 1706, Corgi PCC's and photos

[John Swindler]

>From: Fredbruhn at aol.com
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Car 1706,  Corgi PCC's and photos
>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:17:04 EDT
>
>
>Corgi, the 1:50 scale folks, have planned for 2000 a Twin Cities and
>Pittsburgh 1700 car.  I expected the Pittsburgh car to be the same one they
>have used for all the other models, but it does have a roof ventilator
>running the length of the car, but it is at least twice as high as it 
>should
>be.  Better than not having it.  The car is painted in the mod series with
>red front, white middle and blue rear as I remember and PAT on the side.
>Most of their paint jobs have been fairly accurate.


That's interesting.  Roof ventilator, implying 1700 series all-electric, yet 
red/white/blue paint scheme.  Wonder if they have confused "Spirit of 1776" 
car (ex 1616) with all-electric models????
By the way, for transit trivia buffs, this car originally left paint shop 
with no stars above window.  They were added before car released for service 
for increased visibility.

John

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