[PRCo] OT:___1936--1937___PCC

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

	For an interesting story about a 1936--1937 PCC Air-Car (that
has been mentioned on this list before,) go to::
http://www.rypn.org/ and look under  BRIEFS  for the article:::

		""10/26/02""
	""PCC Car Finds Home in Baltimore""

.......about the SDERy PCC in Cloudcroft, NM, that is now at the
Baltimore Museum courtesy of Carvey Davis, BTC TrolleyCar
Operator, and a push by John Engleman.   Included are articles
concerning this purchase:::::::

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	It is with tremendous pride that I announce the impending
arrival of a second PCC car for The Baltimore Streetcar Museum
[BSM.]    After two years' worth of delicate negotiations, The
Baltimore Streetcar Museum has purchased ex-El Paso City Lines'
PCC car number 1503.

	This is one of the original design St. Louis Car Company PCCs,
originally built in 1936 for the San Diego Electric Railway.   
In 1950, it was purchased by El Paso City Lines and renumbered
1503.    It served the International streetcar line there running
into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, many times daily until that line was
cut back and then eventually abandoned in 1974.

	Shortly thereafter it was sold to an individual who took it to
the very top of the Sacramento Mountains at Cloudcroft, New
Mexico (elevation 8670 feet).    It went thru two owners and was
used as a real estate office there until a few years ago when it
was offered for sale.

	The car is completely electrically and mechanically intact, and
is remarkably in very good condition.  Its interior has been
remodelled, but it will be remodelled once again at BSM into a
passenger carrying streetcar.    It has never been off the rails
as it was moved from El Paso and "stuffed" in Cloudcroft on a
short section of track.

	The car was moved from Cloudcroft this past weekend
[2002.10.12-13] by Silk Road, a professional trucking company
that specialises in transit vehicle moves, under the guidance of
BSM members Mark Dawson, John Engleman, Chris Howell, and Josh
Lepman, who literally worked themselves to a frazzle (one day in
a steady, cold, 35 degree rain) preparing the car for the
move.    The car's impending arrival at the Streetcar Museum is
presently scheduled for Wednesday, October 23rd.

	The acquisition of the car was made possible by an extremely
generous donation of BSM member (and ex-Baltimore Transit
streetcar operator) Carvey Davis, who has very fond memories of
Baltimore's St. Louis Car Co. PCCs.

	Present plans call for the car to be restored to operating
status as a representative Baltimore Transit Company St. Louis
Car Co. PCC.    It will be numbered 7028 (one number higher than
BTC's last St. Louis car) at Carvey Davis' wishes, and will
eventually be repainted as the St. Louis BTC PCCs were originally
delivered.    Before full restoration begins, the car will be
painted in a protective coat of the final BTC streetcar livery of
yellow and gray.    Minor changes will be made to the car but at
no time will the car be claimed to be a Baltimore PCC, as full
information and photographs will be prominently displayed in the
car tracing its entire history.   No timetable is yet in place
for completion, but it is expected to be a fast-tracked project. 
++++++++  John Engleman, 10/18/02.
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	Present plans call for the new St. Louis car to be painted
yellow and gray.    After restoration is completed on it, it will
be painted in the original colors, similar to the way car 7407 is
now.    At that time, 7407 will be re-painted into the yellow and
gray scheme, and both cars will wear what they wore (or would
have worn) the majority of their active lives.

	The St. Louis cars wore green for 14 years from 1936 to 1950 and
yellow and gray for 6 years until retirement, but 7407 only wore
green for two years before switching to the BTC version of NCL
colors for two years.    It then wore the final yellow and gray
scheme for 14 years from 1949 to 1963.  ++++++++++  John Engleman
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Museum receives streetcar; 2-year restoration planned
 
	A 1936 streetcar that ran in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego will
be delivered today to the Baltimore Streetcar Museum
(http://entertainment.sunspot.net/top/1,1419,p-artslife-art-X!PlaceDetail-29,00.html)
on Falls Road, where it will be restored to running condition
during the next two years.    The $35,000 project, which includes
purchase of the 19-ton vehicle and its transportation to
Baltimore, was made possible through a gift from Carvey Davis, a
former Baltimore Transit Co. motorman, museum member and Glen
Burnie resident.    "It is representative of the first type of
streamlined streetcar that Baltimore Transit ever bought," said
John Engleman, a museum member who also contributed money toward
the car's purchase.    The car was manufactured by St. Louis Car
Co. and last ran in 1974.    It later was used as a real estate
office in Cloud Croft, N.M. From staff reports 

Copyright © 2002, The Baltimore Sun 

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James B. Holland

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