Museum Carbarn Assignments.

Kenneth Josephson kjosephson at sprintmail.com
Wed Jan 3 12:03:39 EST 2001



"Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:

> That sort of problem is a perpetual problem.  It generated over 3/8ths
> of an inch of printed e-mails last week! Car 1138 was already restored
> once at PTM and then allowed to sit outside and rot.  This is the second
> restoration.  That is why the PTM horse car is being stored temporarily
> in a member's factory.

Thank you, Fred.

I appreciate the reply. I was also waiting for someone to take the bait and suggest that both
cars go into the barn and another one get kicked out. So here are the choices (this is an
eight car structure):

1.) The only known surviving Cincinnati Curveside single ended interurban.

2.) The only known surviving Atlantic City Brilliner.

3.) The first multiple unit electric el car to ever operate.

4.) A wooden Harmony Route car which had received a $350,000 restoration five years ago.

5.) A complete and well preserved cable car from a city other than San Francisco.

6.) An ordinary Philadelphia all electric PCC that happens to be the personal favorite of an
eccentric but extremely wealthy traction fan who not only has contributed large sums of money
to the museum over the years, but built the barn in the first place.

7.) An 1888 Sprague Richmond car.




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