[PRCo] Re: Johnstown 406

[Fred Schneider]

STIB paid Johnstown Traction to cut the cars apart, one by one, crate the parts,
and send them to Brugge.  At that time there were 16 cars.  They may have also
paid for the remaining spare parts inventory ... have no idea.  I stopped at
Moxham in the summr of 1962 and the cars were still there, two years after
closure of the rail system.  Have no idea when the canibalization began.  I got
a bronze St. Louis Car builders plate at that time but lost it in the interim
... it was in dad's house and we never found it up to the time that the house
was sold.  The new owners have never said they found it.

John Swindler wrote:

> >Fred Schneider replied:
> >
> >There may be some pictures in the PTM library ... I have a xerox that EHL
> >gave me about twenty years ago ... shows the inside of a car that had been
> >"t-boned" about the middle of the left side.  I heard that expression for
> >the first time about three weeks ago, and then again a week later.
> >Apparently means hit broadside and wrapped around the thing that hit it.
> >That is clearly what happened to 406 ... looks like about a 25 degree bend
> >in the middle of the car.  It was clearly not repairable, although they may
> >have salvaged some parts before the carcass was hauled away.
> >
>
> Didn't the salvaged parts end up under STIB 7501 which remained in service
> into the 1970s and possibly even 1980s?
>
> And are any of the other ex Johnstown salvaged PCC parts still running
> around the streets of Brussels under STIB 7156-7171?
>
> John S.
>
> >Boris Cefer wrote:
> >
> > > It was more than 50 years ago, in 1953, when Johnstown car 406 was
> >scrapped after an accident with a steam locomotive.
> > > Does anybody know any details of that wreck? How did it occure? What was
> >the extent of damage and and how far from its track did the car end? Does
> >exist any photo showing the area of accident or the deformed car body?
> > > Boris
> >
> >
> >
>
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