[PRCo] Re: Sunday, July 16, 2000

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

	Couldn't be a PCC in 1932!!<GG>

	And the 6000--series light-weight cars were assigned to Mt.-Lebanon!!

> mrb190 wrote:

> From the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sunday, July 16, 2000:

> "Fifty years ago on this date, a packed McKeesport No. 68 streetcar jumped the
> tracks after its brakes failed, knocked down a utility pole, and crashed into a
> parked car near the gas station at Loretta and Murray avenues in Squirrel Hill.
> Eighteen people were injured."

> No note if this was a PCC or standard car.  I imagine that it was returning with
> Kennywood folks, as it was a "Sunday" and was "packed."

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company
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    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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