Trustee Report January '24

This week started with quite a group that arrived from Morgantown WV for an Operator for an Hour.  I asked Sarah to fill in for me as I knew the brutal cold might be a problem for me to get around.  The group of young engineers were all connected with the WVU campus PRT system and were fascinated with our streetcars and had lots of stories about the ins and outs of operating a one of a kind transit system that dates to the early 1970s.  Sarah has lots of good stories!  Here is a photo of the  candidate with Sarah!
 

Below is a really cold day with 4004 again doing the honors as it heads out for another trip.

Last week there was considerable sanding on 1713 where Laura Wells was working on the decals for the Terrible Trolley recreation.  In that process Michael Buchta was finding a considerable layer of gray color paint.  Turns out the secret history of the car was revealed with Jack Jost’s discovery of this photo. 

 

I spent considerable time in my younger days taking lots of trolley photos.  In addition I had access to two collections of Pittsburgh trolley photos from the 60s-->the 90s and in all of that there were no photos showing 1713 in the gray roof large number scheme, a scheme that 1711 was the first recipient.

 

It is interesting that 1713 was photographed on May 10, 1953 with our West Penn 832 at Charleroi Car House as it was prepared for the trip to Ingram to join founding car M1.

 

In my recollection of the car looked like it did in this photo I took in 1966 until it was painted as the Terrible Trolley.  Oh well...I guess I spent all my spare time at the Museum.

 

 

There was also 1713 in the Parade that Lou Redman and I  successfully promoted to Jim Roddey.  In 1987, 1713 was painted in original colors for our grand opening parade with 3756 to celebrate the opening of the Mt. Lebanon line.

This post 1990 photo is the only one I found in the collections I consulted showing other than the Terrible scheme.

Be sure to scroll down to see the reports from the balance of the weaks :-} since the last meeting!

Finally, in case you missed it last month, here links to my various blog pages:

https://trolleyologyguy.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_4.html
https://trolleyologyguy.blogspot.com/2020/01/m551-acquisiton-1984.html
https://trolleyologyguy.blogspot.com/2019/12/4398s-new-decor.html