Monday, 27 April 2009

The Seven-Wheeled Streetcar

(Updated with a better scan)
Prior to the Annual Meeting, I was talking with my old friend Norman Krentel. He had told this story to a friend of his who wouldn't believe it. So here's visual proof.

In 1980, Norm Krentel, Jeff Brady, and I took a railfan trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania. We stopped at this carhouse in Pittsburgh and walked through the yard looking at the cars. Somehow we noticed that one of them was missing a wheel. "How did it get here?" As we were standing there looking at it, another PCC came in off the street and pulled up on the next track, and the two crewmen unloaded a wheel. They had been sent out to pick up the missing wheel!

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