[PRCo] Re: PCC___Quiz

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


	In looking over Dave Hamley's 6-part series on the PCCs, a
little more information is available for some of the cars below
and is therein listed:::::::


> Jim Holland wrote:

> Here is a listing of PCCs scrapped over the years
> and reason

> 1038    Collision, Penn 28th                    1959


> 1213    Collision, SHJ                          1961

	Car-1213 apparently had major front end damage ala 1267 below
from rear-ending another car on the 49-line on or about
1961.09.25 but was excluded from scrapping in the Fall-1963,
speculation being it was involved in legal wrangling as yet.


1235 damaged in collision inside Tunnel Car House in July-1960
and also in the scrapping program but not listed on my other
list.


> 1242    Collision w/M283, 42/39 Jct             1960

	Badly damaged front end when it rear-ended M28e July--1960.


> 1267    Collision w/1400, Smithfield St. Bridge 1962.11.26

	Major front-end damage after rear-ending 1400 and date listed
above is collision date, not scrapping date which began
1963.09.05.


> 1261    Collision w.1645, Castle Shannon        1963.07.08

	Car-1261 also had a near-head-on with 1264 on 1955.01.23 over
the switches at Lincoln and Frankstown.

	Dave notes:  ""In one of several head-on collisions on the
single track 38A... (the signals there were notably unreliable,
the human substitutes even less so,)...""


> 1297    Collision with truck, Ohio and Federal


> 1299    "   "   "   "   "   "   "   "   "   "


> 1437    Collision

	Hit truck at grade crossing Ardmore Blvd in 1961.


> 1454    Collision


> 1529    Collision w/truck, lower Forbes

	
> 1608    Collision w.auto, Wilkinsburg

	An auto estimated to be travellling 100-mph hit 1608 (inbound
87-line) head-on 1961.12.15.


> 1629    Collision w/1296 Sandusky Robinson      1958.04.23

	Date shown is collision date and car was scrapped in program
beginning 1959.07.02.    Collision with 1296 which resulted in
the body of 1629 being bent badly sideways in the front and had a
big kink at the center door opening.    Car 1296 repaired and
continued service.


> 1645    Collision w/1261, Castle Shannon        1963.07.08


> 1668    Collision inside Tunnel

	In collision with 1235 - one of cars lost brakes and hit the
other.    Car 1235 scrapped in 1963, 1668 sidelined but never
repaired and eventually scrapped.


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James B. Holland

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