[PRCo] Re: PCC___Quiz

[Fred Schneider]

In this case I can agree to the term "diverted from the Brooklyn order."  Brooklyn and Queens Transit wanted to insure the success of the PCC program, and they, not the builder, arranged to sell one of its cars to Boston.

rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:

> 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