[PRCo] Re: Johnstown 406

[Fred Schneider]

Vasted time.  You vill see on car vhen you get here.  They were mounted on the
destination sign box door.

Boris Cefer wrote:

> 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.
> >