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Published by the Friends of Trolleys, Inc. Volume 11, Number 3 Summer 2017

By Harry Donahue

he Board of Trustees of the Trolley Museum (PTM) has approved T moving forward with the front platform work on PTC #8042 this Fall. The classic Philadelphia “8000-car” has been on display at PTM since 2005. (For a detailed history of #8042, see The Streamliner, Volume 10, Number 1; Spring, 2016).

The plan is to move #8042 into the shop this fall and to completely rebuild the front platform from its knees to its bonnet. This will include new corner and center posts, platform sidewall and operating equipment. Keith Bray, who has done a number of beautiful restorations at several of the trolley museums in the Northeast, will lead the project, along with volunteers to complete the CHECK PLEASE: Harry Donahue (second from right) hands restoration. FPT’s check to Bruce Wells and Scott Becker (left and second from left) while Bill Monaghan (far right) witnesses the transaction. (Jack Demnyan photo.) Thanks to individual contributions, PTM has $33,000.00 donated or pledged of the In August, during the Washington County Fair Week, FPT Directors Bill Monaghan and Harry approximately $40,000.00 needed to do the Donahue presented Scott Becker with a platform work which is Phase 1 of the #8042 $3,000.00 grant for #8042 through the project. Would you help Friend of Washington County Community Foundation Philadelphia Trolleys (FPT) to get this (WCCF) Gives program. This will enable FPT's donation to be matched by the County's platform project finished? If you would like to program, as was done with FPT's 2016 grant. donate, please use the attached form in this issue. Built by J.G. Brill in 1923, car #8042 was one of 200-plus “8000-cars,” modernized by PTC in 1941. This rebuilding program was done to Phase 2 of the project will include the roof work. make the cars look more compatible with the Thanks to earlier FPT donations, the new canvas new PCC cars entering service. From 1941 and the roof ventilators that have already been until September 1955, #8042 worked out of purchased will be ready to use. Callowhill Depot, mostly on Subway/Surface Route #10. From Fall 1955 until its retirement in December 1957, it ran out of Southern Depot on Phase 3 will include a new interior headliner and Routes #17 and #32, the last non-PCC lines in new doors. Philadelphia.

The Streamliner is published by the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation.

FPT DIRECTORS: Harry Donahue, Roger DuPuis, Dave Horwitz, Bill Monaghan and Matt Nawn

FPT LEGAL COUNSEL: Dave Nelson, Jonathan Senker NOSTALGIC BEAUTY ON EIGHT WHEELS: PSTC’s #21 at Larchmont. (Ernie Mozer collection.) FPT ON THE WEB: PHILLY TROLLEYS IN THE NEWS FPT’s new public website is: www.friendsofphiladelphiatrolleys.org By Harry Donahue FPT also can also be found on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Friends-of- Most books written about PCC Cars have a Philadelphia-Trolleys-180655945374324/ mention of the Red Arrow Saint Louies, always stressing that while the may look like double end E-MAIL: PCCs, they are not “real” PCCs. Because of [email protected] their custom designed high speed trucks, the fourteen streamliners, numbered 11 to 24, were not considered to be genuine PCCs. MAILING ADDRESS: P.O. Box 33397, Almost 70 years after they were built, two of the Philadelphia PA 19142-0397 cars are about to become “real” PCCs. Cars #18 and #21, which had been preserved since the The Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys 1980s at Shore Line Trolley Museum in encourage you to visit and support trolley Branford, Connecticut, have been purchased by museums dedicated to the preservation of San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) and Philadelphia’s trolley heritage, including the will be rebuilt as PCC Cars for MUNI’s E Line following: which requires double ended cars. The two cars are now at Brookville Equipment Corporation in Baltimore Streetcar Museum Pennsylvania. New bolsters will have to be www.baltimorestreetcar.org designed for the cars so they can run on B-3 Electric City Trolley Museum Association PCC trucks. www.ectma.org New York www.nymtmuseum.org Pennsylvania Trolley Museum www.pa-trolley.org www.rockhilltrolley.org www.trolleymuseum.org Shore Line Trolley Museum www.shorelinetrolley.org

Have an article, suggestion or compliment you’d like to submit for the newsletter? GOING TO A NEW HOME: #18 is leaving Shoreline Trolley Museum for the Brookville Equipment Corporation in Contact us via the e-mail address listed above. Pennsylvania. (Bill Wall photo.)

The Streamliner Page 2. Summer 2017 ENROUTE TO MEDIA: SEPTA #18 stops at Garrett Avenue on the way from Upper Darby in January 1982. (Unknown photographer.)) READY FOR SHIPMENT: Car #1055, formerly SEPTA #2122 is in the Brookville yard, awaiting shipment to San The following four pictures are of more Francisco. Note that there appear to be several PCC trucks on the left awaiting work. Not only does the Philadelphia PCC cars that have returned from company restore bodies, they perform truck work. their third overhaul. The cars’ pictures illustrate (Kevin Sheridan photo.) #1059 (); #1055 (1950’s Philadelphia); #1060 (1938 Philadelphia) and #1062 (Pittsburgh), all in San Francisco.

OUT AND ABOUT: Car #1059, formerly SEPTA #2099, resplendent in Boston livery, through Mission Delores Park during its burn-in period. Rebuilt cars must undergo 1,000 miles of on-the-road testing before they are released for revenue service. It was a picture-perfect day when Jeremy Whiteman snapped this picture.

The pictures show the meticulous work done by the Brookville Equipment Corporation. The company has been involved in streetcar MORE OUT AND ABOUT: Car #1062, formerly SEPTA restoration since 2002. In addition to the work #2101, is caught on camera by Robert Parks near Pier done for the San Francisco Municipal Railway, 39 which is also known as Fishermen’s Wharf. With the “NOT IN SERVICE” designation in the destination sign, it its work may be found in San Diego, New won’t be making any stops along The Embarcadero as Orleans and, of course, Philadelphia. the car is in its burn-in period.

The Streamliner Page 3. Summer 2017 OUT FOR TESTING: SEPTA #2168 was recently out of service at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum so that Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys members Matt Nawn, Bill Monaghan, Jerry Evans and Mike Lawson could perform a complete inspection and adjustment of the car's electric shaft brakes. Here Matt (far left) and Jerry (in the operator’s seat) have the car out for a test run while passing BSM’s Peter Witt car #6119. There’s more to read on page seven. (Bill Monaghan photo.)

ALL’S FAIR AT THE FAIR Article and Pictures by Bill Monaghan

Have you ever let a center door car pass you by A THING OF BEAUTY AT NIGHT: #1060, formerly SEPTA so you could ride on an “80-car” in 2017? #2715, is back in service on Castro Street in June 2017. It seems that trolleys always look stunning at night. (Jeremy Whiteman photo.)) If you would like to see real street car service at a trolley museum, you must visit the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) during the Washington County Agricultural Fair in August. You can park your car at the parking lot at McClane School Loop or at the main museum area then ride aboard a streetcar to the fair. The trolleys operate during the fair form 10 A.M. to 11 P.M. departing every 10 minutes, depending on the size of the crowds at the fair. There are up to four cars operating at certain times of the day when there is a big event at the fair. “” has become a major fundraiser. This year, PTM carried 5,020 to the fair. WAY BACK IN THE DAY: Car #8042 is on the #10 line, west bound at 30th Street Station. The picture is from the early 1950s. The photographer is unknown. Since the car is housed and being restored at the Pennsylvania Trolley There are great opportunities to photograph the Museum, your donation can go a long way in making this trolley cars in service. Cars are operated in two trolley look like the day it left the J.G. Brill Company’s factory. Print out the donation form at the end of The shifts, a new set of cars will be available to Streamliner, attach your donation and send it in today! photograph at 4 P.M., when another set of cars Thank you! come out for the night. Sometimes, the

The Streamliner Page 4. Summer 2017 dispatchers may have a theme such as Red Arrow, PCC or Pittsburgh cars. The Trolley Display is open during the day for tours. Next year, come out to Fair Week for a great time. Here are several pictures from the 2017 Fair. Enjoy!

If you would like more information about the Washington County Agricultural Fair, visit their website at: WWW.WASHINGTONFAIR.ORG. Of course, you can also visit Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s website at their address on page two.

The Streamliner Page 5. Summer 2017 T BASE STATION QUICK STOPOVER: Bill Monaghan catches Pennsylvania A : Bruce Wells documented #78 at Trolley Museum’s car #78, an “80-car,” at PTM’s Allison Pennsylvania Trolley Museum’s Richfol station. That’s Station in October 2015. Upon close examination of the P&WCTC/PSTC’s center entrance car #66 on the left. picture, that is Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys members As most trolley aficionados know, they were both built by Harry Donahue and Logan Tracey (left to right) on the Philadelphia’s J.G. Brill Company. platform. reduction and consolidation of other competing forms of transit in the area, enabled the P&WCTC/PSTC’s “80-CARS” management to stave off the effects of the Story from Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Website terrible economic times, and go on to build one of the most successful privately-owned The onset of the Great Depression brought with transportation companies in the country. it a spiraling decline in the revenue and ridership of most streetcar companies. For many lines, The consolidation of streetcar and the only answer was abandonment or motor operations by the Philadelphia and West Chester . Car #78 is one of a group of ten cars Traction Company in the early 1930s gave rise purchased from the J.G. Brill Company in 1931 to discussion of changing the corporate name to and 1932 by the Philadelphia and West Chester better reflect the new, diversified business. In Traction Company (P&WCTC) as part of a bold 1936, the company became the Philadelphia plan to combat the decline while maintaining the Suburban Transportation Company (PSTC), and financial health of the company through the adopted the “Red Arrow Lines” logo as part of a tough economic times. carefully planned public relations campaign.

The “80-cars,” as they became known, were The “80-cars” served Philadelphia’s western designed for one-man operation, equipped for suburbs for 50 years. Their last 15 years of high-speed running, and employed lightweight service saw them used primarily in rush hour aluminum construction. The cars were so successful that five additional cars were ordered service. Car #78 was withdrawn from service even before the initial five cars ordered had been and acquired by the Pennsylvania Trolley fully delivered. Museum in September 1982. To the collection, it represents the transition in electric railway These new cars were cheaper to man and design, construction, and technology between reduced power consumption, while their high- arch roof cars and the PCC car. (A word of speed equipment cut the scheduled operating thanks goes to Scott Becker of the Pennsylvania times and made the service even more attractive Trolley Museum for permission to reproduce the to potential riders. This, coupled with a story and Mr. Wells’ picture.)

The Streamliner Page 6. Summer 2017 NOT AT 11TH & GIRARD: Matt Nawn (left) and Mike Lawson pose in front of #2168 at Baltimore Streetcar Museum’s 28th Street Loop. We suspect Mike Barron took this picture.

an interesting fact … Mike, Mike and Matt are all mechanical engineers who also enjoy working on vintage trolley cars.

Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys is fortunate to have Jerry Evans, Mike Lawson, Bill Monaghan, Harry Donahue, George Rich, Matt Nawn and Mike Barron, who make themselves available to NOT YOUR REGULAR QUICK LUBE SHOP: Adjusting the shaft brakes on an all-electric PCC car sometimes requires work on car #2168. It should be noted that these laying on the grass to get into the proper position. folks, except for Mike Barron, come down to the Baltimore Streetcar Museum from Pennsylvania to share their time. Mike Barron is luckier, his FORMER SEPTA PCC CAR #2168 commute is much, much shorter and RETURNED TO SERVICE AT nevertheless, his support is appreciated. BALTIMORE STREETCAR MUSEUM Story and Pictures by Matt Nawn

After being sidelined for several weeks due to concerns with the performance of the braking system, the car that “started it all” for Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys, SEPTA #2168, has been repaired and returned to operating condition at its home at Baltimore Streetcar Museum.

After several tedious workdays, Mike Lawson, Mike Barron and Matt Nawn spent September 3, 2017, cleaning and adjusting the shaft brake mechanisms to ensure proper operation. The hard work paid off as the car successfully passed its braking tests late in the day, enabling the car to return to active status, including for AT THE 28TH STREET LOOP: Mike Barron (left) and Mike Lawson pose in front of #2168 at Baltimore Streetcar operation during Baltimore Streetcar Museum’s Museum’s 28th Street Loop. We are convinced that Matt Members Day on September 16, 2017. Here is Nawn took this picture.

The Streamliner Page 7. Summer 2017 OVER THE HILL AND THROUGH THE WOODS: Rockhill Trolley Museum’s Liberty Liner is meandering through the woods NOT AN EASY TASK: Nicholas Brightbill carefully works on enroute to its destination. the Liberty Liner’s lettering. Note the absence of masking tape! Suburban Transportation Company (Red Arrow Lines) purchased both trainsets for the UPDATE ON THE Philadelphia and Western Division (now the LIBERTY LINER Norristown High Speed Line). By January 1964, By Harry Donahue they were in service, now dubbed “Liberty Liners.” The cars ran into the SEPTA era, In 1941, the North Shore Line, an that retiring in 1978. connected Milwaukee and Chicago, purchased two high-speed four-section trainsets from St. Liner #801-802 now resides at the Illinois Louis Car Company. Christened “,” Railway Museum and is repainted in its original the trains were numbered 801-802 and 803-804. North Shore motif. Liner #803-804 is at the They ran until the end of North Shore service in Rockhill Trolley Museum in Rockhill Furnace, January 1963. Pennsylvania and still in its Red Arrow colors, where it comes out to run for special occasions. Merritt Taylor, President of the Philadelphia Jump ahead to summer 2017: Two young members of Rockhill Trolley Museum (RTM), Stephen Lane and Nicholas Brightbill, have begun the enormous task of giving the Liner a cosmetic paint job to brighten up its red and white colors. Plans are also in the works to refurbish the car's interior. This will be an ongoing project, not to be completed in one summer … there is plenty to be done. Anyone who would like to help out on this worthwhile endeavor should contact Stephen at: [email protected]. A successful fund raising event for the Liner was organized by Stephen and Nicholas on August 6, 2017 at END OF THE LINE STOP: The guys of Rockhill Trolley Museum proudly pose at the end RTM’s trolley line. RTM.

The Streamliner Page 8. Summer 2017 COLORFUL FAN TRIP: Ernie Mozer caught car #5205 on a fan trip passing car #2632 in the #62 on Chester Avenue, Yeadon, on October 15, 1957.

IN ITS ORANGE SPLENDOR: Bill Monaghan “snaps” #5326 at ROUTE #46’s the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum. SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY Two trolleys from the final days of Route #46 By Harry Donahue survive today: car #5205 is preserved and is in restoration at Electric City Trolley Museum in This year, 2017, marks the 60th anniversary of Scranton; car #5326 is at the Pennsylvania the last double end Brill trolleys in Philadelphia. Trolley Museum, in Washington, Pennsylvania, The date was August 11, 1957; the line was where it has been repainted in its as delivered Route #46, the 58th and 60th Streets line, in 1923 livery. Back in the 1920’s in Philadelphia, West Philadelphia. Route #46 ran from 60th and an orange car approaching meant that the car Lansdowne to 58th & Woodland. Owl cars were was double-ended and passengers were to extended to 63rd and Malvern. It was a heavy board at the rear of the car; a green car indicated line, at one time connecting with trolley routes a single-ended car, with at the front. (from north to south): #10, #15, #30, #31, #42, #34, #13, #11, #12 and #37. During Route #46’s final ten years of operation, the 1923 double- ended series 5200-5334 were assigned to the line. These cars were built by J.G. Brill Company, which was located just around the corner from Route #46’s southern terminus.

ORANGE REFLECTION: Bill Monaghan catches #5326 at the ANOTHER FAN TRIP: Ernie Mozer caught car #5326 on a Pennsylvania Trolley Museum near the McClane School fan trip on Route #6 at Willow Grove in 1956. Loop.

The Streamliner Page 9. Summer 2017 DID YOU KNOW? The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum is the DETAILS, DETAILS, DETAILS: Jerry is obviously quite museum for Red Arrow fans. One more Red Arrow car, pleased with intricate details of his new “Saint Louie” Brilliner #5, awaits the funding to restore the car to model. service, giving PTM a complete roster of all four types of suburban cars that once ran to West Chester, Ardmore, PCCs. As a personal token of appreciation from Media and Sharon Hill. As most rail fans, this car was members of several groups that have benefited one of the ten last cars to ever be built by the J.G. Brill from Jerry's generosity, he recently was Company. presented with a very special gift.

SALUTING JERRY EVANS Jerry, who grew up in Sharon Hill, Pennsylvania, Story and Photos by Roger DuPuis has been a lifelong fan of the Red Arrow trolley system. With the help of John Engleman, a Jerry Evans is a familiar face to many in our Saint Petersburg Collection model of Red group and at trolley museums throughout the Arrow “St. Louie” car #23 was obtained for Jerry. mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Painted in the original livery worn by these cars,

Jerry, who recently retired from SEPTA after 38 the model carries a Sharon Hill destination sign. years as a trolley mechanic and electrician, has The O Scale model was presented to Jerry been putting his skills and experience to use by recently during a brief ceremony aboard SEPTA offering technical advice and assistance on the PCC #2168 during the 2017 Annual Crab Fest at maintenance of many museum cars, particularly the Baltimore Streetcar Museum in July.

AND THE AWARD GOES TO: Jerry Evans holds up his ON THE LIGHTER SIDE: Jerry Evans (left) and Harry model, in its protective case, as John Engleman (left) and Donahue share a laugh following the presentation Harry Donahue look on. ceremony.

The Streamliner Page 10. Summer 2017 Oh no! Didja forget your 2017- 2018 dues? Not a problem! There’s a handy-dandy renewal form at the end of The Streamliner. Just print it out, enclose it in an envelope with your payment and put in the mail today! Thank you if you have already paid.

MORE FROM THE ERNIE MOZER COLLECTION

Here’s a selection of pictures taken by the late Ernie Mozer. As mentioned in a previous Streamliner, Mr. Mozer was an avid trolley fan who also happened to eventually retired from SEPTA after many years of service.

FARES, PLEASE! A NEW (OLD) ADDITION FOR #2743 Story and Picture by Roger DuPuis

PCC DEBUT: Brand-new PCC car #2008 had just left the A trolley wouldn’t be a trolley without somewhere Wayne and Carpenter loop on August 14, 1938. Cars 2001-2020 were the first PCCs in Philadelphia. to stash passengers’ tokens and cash. Nineteen-year-old Ernie Mozer traveled from Brooklyn for Fareboxes of one kind or another have been an the occasion … a true trolley aficionado. integral part of public transit since its earliest, horse-drawn days. And now, Philadelphia Transportation Company’s PCC car #2743 once again has a vintage version planted next to the operator’s seat.

Volunteer Mike Lawson recently completed installation of the contraption on #2743’s front platform. “There were lots of holes drilled in the floor for the various fareboxes that were used CAR PULL-IN: Here’s car #8334, single-end Peter-Witt over the years but I found the right set and now style, built by Brill in 1923. Ernie was working out of the farebox is exactly where it was originally,” Callowhill Depot when he took this view of a Route. #38 pull-in on 58th Street. The date is September 3, 1949. Mike said.

The Streamliner Page 11. Summer 2017 multiple ways to FPT's fundraising, grants and technical support efforts. He is a native of upstate New York and now resides in central Pennsylvania. He is a volunteer operator of Conestoga Transportation Company #236 owned by the Manheim Historical Society in Manheim, Pennsylvania, as well as the Rockhill Trolley Museum and several other electric railway museums. Roger is a journalist in his professional career.

AT THE PARK: This is car #8317, also a 1923 single-end Brill. The date is June 19, 1956. Ernie was working out Please join us in welcoming Roger as an FPT of Woodland Depot when he brought this fan trip to Director! Willow Grove Park via Route #6.

 OCTOBER 7, 2017: Fall Spectacular at the Rockhill Trolley Museum, 10:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Come out and ride and check out the work that has been finished on the restoration of PTC PCC 2743 to its circa-1960 colors.  OCTOBER 15, 2017: Kawasaki Car Charter that departs from Elmwood Depot at 9:00 A.M. This is a West Jersey Chapter NRHS event. For more information call Bill Sweeney, 856-427-9327. The fare is $40.00.  NOVEMBER 4, 2017: Twenty Dollar Day at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum from Noon until 5:00 P.M. Come out and help support the Friends of Philadelphia Trolleys while having a great time riding, operating and photographing trolley cars.  DECEMBER 31, 2017: The famous New Years’ Eve Charter Trip is being planned. Details are not yet “nailed down” yet but more information will soon follow. THROUGH THE WOODS WE GO: PCC #2743 is seen on PCC Car and LRV Day on July 15, 2017 at the Rockhill Trolley Museum. (Bill Monaghan photo.) FPT WELCOMES ROGER DUPUIS II AS A NEW DIRECTOR By Matt Nawn

As another step in FPT's efforts to move to a more formal organizational structure, the FPT Founding Members recently decided to transition from Founding Members to Directors, adding a fifth director to our organizational structure. Therefore, we formally welcome Roger DuPuis II as an FPT Director by unanimous consent of the four, original, directors: Harry Donahue, David Horwitz, Bill Monaghan and Matt Nawn.

Roger is known to many friends and members of FPT through his gracious management of FPT's SHOWING HIM THE ROPES: Matt Nawn, right, shows website and also as the author of the recent Andrew Nawn how to place #2743’s front trolley pole on Arcadia publication Philadelphia Trolleys: From the wire … or is Andrew showing Matt the ropes? Survival to Revival. Roger provides support in (Bill Monaghan photo.)

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