[net-gold] MUSEUMS: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY : TRANSPORTATION: TROLLEY TRAIN SUBWAY LIGHT RAIL BUS CITY HISTORY : WEBLOGS: Newark City Subway PCC Rides Again
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- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:54:41 -0400 (EDT)
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MUSEUMS: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY :
TRANSPORTATION: TROLLEY TRAIN SUBWAY LIGHT RAIL BUS CITY HISTORY :
WEBLOGS:
Newark City Subway PCC Rides Again
Trams Stop Here
Posted on Sunday, 25th September 2011 by DuPuis
http://tramsstophere.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/
newark-city-subway-pcc-rides-again/
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/3b6ksw3
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Saturday, Aug. 27 was the first day that former New ark City Subway PCC
car 6 was in regular service for visitors at the Rockhill Trolley Museum
in the Allegheny Mountains of southcentral Pennsylvania, a little more
than three months after it arrived at the museum from New Jersey. Its
formal return to passenger service came just over a decade after New
Jersey Transit retired the Newark PCCs in favor of low-floor Kinki Sharyo
light rail vehicles.
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"Rockhill Trolley Museum is honored to be able to preserve this historic
car and thanks all of the donors, friends, and volunteers who have made it
possible," said Matthew W. Nawn, who is first vice president of Railways
To Yesterday, Inc., the museum's parent organization.
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Car 6 "provides the museum an excellent example of a PCC car for use in
fulfilling its educational mission," he wrote. "The car's condition and
back end controls make it ideally suited for our operation. Its all steel
construction make it an ideal car for foul weather operations (as compared
with the majority of the cars in our collection that have canvas covered
wooden roofs)."
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Matt was kind enough to share with me some detailed thoughts about car 6
and its restoration, which we will read more about below. First, a little
history.
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The years were kind to Newark's PCCs. The 7 City Subway line operated
entirely on private right-of-way, with a single grade crossing at Orange
Street. Stored underground at Newark Penn Station, the cars were protected
from the elements and lovingly maintained. Comparatively few modifications
were made over the years, so that even despite a 1980s overhaul program,
they ended their service lives looking very much as they did in the 1940s
- paint scheme aside - down to window guards, crank operated windows, arm
rests, and foot rests. The most noticeable difference was the addition of
pantographs in their later years, as the line prepared for upgrading to
light rail operation. Nearly a half-century after they arrived in New
Jersey, 24 of of Newark's PCC cars remained in active service, a major
draw for trolley fans. Four of the lost cars (8, 18, 29 and 30) had
earlier been scrapped, while two (3 and 27) were sold to Cleveland's
Regional Transit Authority in 1978 for Shaker Heights Service.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
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