[PRCo] Photos Available
Fred W. Schneider III
fschnei at supernet.com
Tue Nov 13 11:14:14 EST 2001
The following 8x10 photographs are available to the highest bidder as a
set. Minimum bid $50 to me plus a minimum second check for $10 made out
to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum as a donation. They are all from
copy negatives I made from prints in the PTM collection. As far as
quality is concerned, they are below my normal standards but equal to or
higher than normal commercial standards. Closing date November 20th.
Cash in my hands before mailing, but not later than Nov. 30th.
1. Pittsburgh 4801 as a two-man, single front door car in orange paint
in service on route 22 Crosstown with company advertising on the car.
2. Builder's 7/8 right side car 5500 in one-man two-man configuration
with a Westinghouse automatic couper on the rear for towing trailers.
3. Builders 7/8 right side car 5462.
4. Interior rear, Pittsburgh experimental car 6002.
5. Exterior, Pittsburgh experimental car 6002 at Bradley plant.
6. Pittsburgh and Allegheny horsecar No. 12
7. Citizens cable car 223 at Allegheny Cemetery.
8. Altoona builders photo, exterior car 52.
9 Ibid, interior.
10. Altoona builders photo, exterior car 73.
11. Ibid, interior.
12. Southwestern Street Railway (or Philadelphia and Southwestern) 32, a
former Third Avenue Railway Car, side of road jammed with people inside
and out. Pen and ink caption on original that I copied reads "Hog
Island, Pa., 7-2-18. Obviously the Hog Island shipyard was still open.
The picture would no doubt be somewhere near the later later
international terminal of the Philadelphia International Airport (before
the current terminals a, b, c, d, e, f.
13. Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co. car 205 ... photo a tad on the
dark side ... signed Highland Avenue ... eight people hanging on the
outisde. Chester, PA 7-1-18.
The originals for the two Chester area pictures are now at Arden ... I
found them in the library at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum. Apparently
they were taken by some URE employee in 1918. They were mixed in with a
file of URE labor dispute pictures!
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