[PRCo] Re: Johnstown 406

[Boris Cefer]

Isn't speaking about PTM photos vasted time? I have to visit EHL's storage
persönlich!
It's off topic, but I have full cupboard of Tatra builder's plates from our
T1s and T2s, but these are not bronze but steel casts of several different
types. Early Tatra PCCs had a lot of plates on each car - cast plate with
year and builder's number aside 1st door step, two identical rectangle
aluminum sheet plates reading only complete name of Tatra with all the
important national corporations etc. etc. at each side of center door and
one brass sheet plate with full name of CKD Stalingrad (no, the plant wasn't
in Russia; later CKD Trakce), the electric equipment manufacturer, placed
opposite center door above window.
How did the St. Louis Car Co plate look? And where it was placed on the
cars?

Boris


> 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.
>