[PRCo] Re: Interesting item on eBay-CompuServe web site item# 5925413427: HO Brass Pittsburgh Pre-war PCC car by MTS Imports

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

The manufacturer, at least in the paperwork which came with the one that I own, indicates that it is a model of a Los Angeles Railway PCC car.

HrB
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> From: "eBay Member: 36drake" <aw-confirm at ebay.com>
> Date: 2004/10/10 Sun PM 10:19:07 EDT
> To: Pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] 	Interesting item on eBay-CompuServe web site item# 5925413427: HO Brass Pittsburgh Pre-war PCC car by MTS Imports
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>  Seller mentions that the trolley pole has a shoe, not a wheel. I see
> another error in the anticlimber on the front. Didn't the 1000 and 1100
> series PCCs have a shorter anticlimber? Also, what is a "blinker door"?
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> Title of item:       HO Brass Pittsburgh Pre-war PCC car by MTS Imports
> Seller:              nchjrp151
> Starts:              Oct-04-04 20:09:56 PDT
> Ends:                Oct-11-04 20:09:56 PDT
> Price:               Currently $200.00
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> Item Description:
> Powered&nbsp;HO brass model of a Pittsburgh 1936 vintage PCC car, as later modified.&nbsp; The model is factory painted in Pittsburgh's classic red and cream with narrow black stripes scheme.&nbsp;&nbsp; The model is equipped with an incorrect slider type trolley pole (Pittsburgh used wheeled poles): that's the way MTS sold it to me.&nbsp; The car is numbered 1059 and has a route 18 Woods Run headsign.&nbsp; I have not run this model.&nbsp; It is brand new and in its original box.
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