[PRCo] Re: Car 1038

[Jim Holland]

HI!
	I distinctly remember this one, Matt  --  even remember the photo on
the front page of the Pittsburgh Press.

> mrb190 wrote:
> 
> It was 41 years ago October 15 when Pittsburgh Railways PCC car 1038,
>                  operating on
>                      route 87 (Ardmore) in the Strip District, smashed a
> tractor-trailer
>                  broadside, injuring 20
>                      passengers.  Others were severely jolted.  Police
> said the crash was so
>                  violent that they
>                      were amazed that no one was killed.  The trolley
> was knocked off its
>                  tracks by the
>                      impact of the crash at Penn Avenue and 27th Street
> and was carried by its
>                  own momen-
>                      tum into a side street.  Despite a badly smashed
> foot, the operator
>                  escaped with minor
>                      injuries.  Almost every window in 1038 was broken.
> Inspector Albert
>                  Jones said that
>                      the truck, loaded with freight, was crossing Penn
> Avenue on 27th Street
>                  when the
>                      crash occurred shortly before noon.  As a result,
> 1038 was put on the
>                  next scrap list.
>                      Pittsburgh Railways scrapped 45 PCC cars during the
> summer of 1959.

-- 
James B. Holland