[PRCo] Re: That damn PCC car on eBay

[John F Bromley]

It sure as well wasn't CTS 42490, which is what TTC 4674 used to be.

----- Original Message -----
From: <HRBran99 at aol.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:33 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: That damn PCC car on eBay


> In a message dated 9/18/02 7:24:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> fschnei at supernet.com writes:
>
>
> > and found  John Engleman trying to
> > justify buying it to represent the Pullman order of PCCs that Baltimore
> > "ordered and never got."  I never found it in the Pullman orders but it
> > won't die.  Engleman was trying to prove it today with board meeting
> > minutes from 1944 that authorized the BTC president to "conduct
> > negotiations."   With a goodly number of people "negotiations" and
> > "ordering" are one and the same.  Of course no one can show me the
> > order!
> >
>
> Quoting from page 78 of "PCC-The Car That Fought Back," by Stephen P.
Carlson
> and Fred W. Schneider, III, [description of photo by Edward P. Priebe at
> bottom of page 78], "Cleveland acquired 50 PCC's from Pullman-Standard in
> 1946, one of which may have been on the production line for Baltimore
before
> that Maryland system reevaluated its postwar car needs. One Cleveland car
and
> an identical unit for Boston had provision for a rear foot-operated gong,
> which was a Baltimore hallmark."
>
> Perhaps this is why they think it may be their Baltimore destined car?
>
> Herb Brannon/Cleveland
>
>
>