[PRCo] Re: MBTA PCCs, etc.

[Kenneth Josephson]

I stand corrected! :-)

More information here:

http://www.nycsubway.org/us/boston/mattapan/

I wonder why the 3001 had electrical problems? While Boston certainly had a
preference for P-S over St. Louis Car for a number of reasons,  only GE &
Westinghouse provided electrical equipment for all U.S. PCCs. One would
think the Boston management people would have also shied away from
whichever of the two concerns supplied the electrical gear for the 3001.

Ken J.

ROGER Jenkins wrote:

> These cars were completly re-built approx ten years ago and came to the
> Mattapan-Ashmont line in a like-brand-new condition so as I said before
> there is minimal rust damage . A similar   condition prevailed on the
> Newark City Subway line ala P-R-W and one street crossing. So the
> condition of these cars is identical. Besides the Boston cars are
> PULLMAN cars and Newark  cars are ST. LOUIS built so Boston would have
> nothing to do with any of those cars !!!  Burnt once , twice shy dating
> back to their experience with the one and only St. Louis PCC , #3001 ,
> THE QUEEN MARY, diverted from the Brooklyn order and an oddball with no
> left hand door like every other car in Boston. Sidelined due to
> electrical problems in 1947 and never run again ! Scrapped circa late
> 1950s .