[PRCo] Re: A Change in Scenery, MBTA PCCs, etc.

[John F Bromley]

This isn't correct re 3001 (my source: PCC Cars of Boston by Ed Anderson).
3001 operated lastly on the Arsenal St-Western Av line between Watertown and
Central Square, Cambridge until that line was abandoned on 6-17-50, then
went into inactive storage and was finally scrapped at Everett on 2-18-53.


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From: "ROGER Jenkins" <ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:40 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: A Change in Scenery, MBTA PCCs, etc.


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> 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 .
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