(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!
4 comments:
Is that the carhouse at South Hills Junction?
I'm impressed the car stayed on the tracks. I see PAT kept the cars in top-notch condition then, as well.
I have a feeling the track brake saved the day.
When we flip the truck photo horizontally, we get a correct picture of a B-3 truck. The rusted holes in the car body and the paint scheme indicate it might be car 1700.
Oops, good catch! It's been fixed.
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