[PRCo] Re: PCC___Quiz

[rogertrolley.1 at juno.com]

I thought I might throw in my thoughts on the Boston Queen Mary car #3001 which was a car diverted from the original Brooklyn Order. Being the first PCC in Boston and the absolutly last PCC standard car without a left center door . Everbody in Boston called it the Queen Mary as it was the very first PCC there. It was a Jonah car as there was only some lines it could be operated on due to the left handed platforms in the trolley subway downtown north of Park St.Sta. It became a problem car when the rest of the PCC's ordered were Pullman Standard built and all had left hand center doors. After a while it became a Hanger Queen at Watertown Yard where I first saw it in the early fifties,after it suffered some kind of electrical malfunction. It was scrapped in the late fifties but not sure of the exact date. It spent a lot of its operating days on the Charles River-Arborway line as well as the Watertown-Park St. subway-surface line. 2 car train operation on this line relegated it to off-peak runs and sundays and finally sidelined.      cheers rogertrolley