Got the idea for this photo from a Charles Duncan photo I got from Richard Wonson almost 50 years ago. The scene is the Seaver Street module on my HO scale Main Line Traction layout. The model of car 3001 belongs to Brian Ward, and the photo is in Bradley’s book “Streetcar Lines of the Hub” on page 68. (Boston Street Railway Association. www.thebsra.org) My grandfather waited there on Seaver Street for the car to Mattapan on his way to the tailor shop in Milton where he worked.
3001 was Bostons 1st PCC, 1937, and its only St. Louis Car Co. PCC, and the only one without a left-side door. N ormally assigned to Hunbolt Av, - Swaver St. Other PCCs were from Pullman’s Worcester plant, and began arriving in 1940. — Dave
Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 304, built as Aurora Elgine and Fox River 304 in 1924, sold to SHRT in 1936. See Richard’s article in Trolleyville Times for further information.
Richard recently completed and is operating a model of a pre-WWII Los Angeles PCC and provided of it and others as well. See his article in Trolleyville Times.
Toronto LRV and Red Arrow Jewett No.40
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and back to a Brill 1930-era Brooklyn single-end Peter-Witt 6000 in post-WWII colors:
Dave, Thanks for the update. Sure glad that model railroading comes in so many flavors. I find Traction modeling interesting and nostalgic, with recollection of riding the Key System interurbans with my grandmother as a youngster. During that time period Key System shared the green and yellow livery with Los Angeles Transit Lines.
Found a way to keep busy in the winter cold -enjoy!!
RICH
Wilkes Barre Railway Car 772
Richard L. Allman
Car 772 of Wilkes Barre Railway has entered operation on Main Line Transit. The prototype was one of two cars built by J.G. Brill Company in Philadelphia for the Boston Elevated Railway as part of their Type 5 series in 1923. Boston eventually acquired 471 Type 5 cars between 1922 and 1927 in several different orders from several builders, besides Brill including Laconia, Wason, and Osgood
