[PRCo] Auctioned PCCs.......What? No Blinker Doors?

Kenneth Josephson kjosephson at sprintmail.com
Thu Sep 20 14:55:03 EDT 2001




"Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:

> Hi, gang!
> Great news!
> Tonight at the MSR meeting I learned that Muni was the successful bidder on
> an Internet auction where two retired Pittsburgh PCCs, 4008 and 4009 were
> being auctioned.  Muni paid the winning bid of $10,000 each.

Folding doors on 4000s......ugh. And I suppose they will have to install a front
trolley pole to further ruin the lines of the cars.......Jim, why can't your
coworkers wye a car without destroying the pole? :-) Or is there some obscure
ordinance that requires all non-pantograph cars to have two poles? ;-)

Ken J.





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