PE 5023 Pullman plant 11-17-40
Pacific Electric had these nifty double-end, multiple unit PCCs built by Pullman-Standard at Worcester, where 5023 was seen on 11-17-40.
B&W print in my collection, photographer unknown.
History:
In November 1939, California Public Utilities Commission ordered Pacific Electric to restore rail service on the Glendale-Burbank line with PCC cars. In February 1940 thirty double-ended cars were ordered from Pullman-Standard. All cars were ordered with new Westinghouse multiple control system that would allow these PCCs to be coupled into trains. Seventeen cars went into service on the Glendale-Burbank line in November 1940 and in the following January, the other thirteen started running on the Venice Short Line; because of the poor track on the latter line all cars were assigned to Glendale-Burbank, where they ran until the abandonment in 1956. After three years of storage in the abandoned subway tunnel, all 30 were sold to the General Urquiza Railway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. None of them were preserved.
PE 5023 Pullman plant 11-17-40
Pacific Electric had these nifty double-end, multiple unit PCCs built by Pullman-Standard at Worcester, where 5023 was seen on 11-17-40.
B&W print in my collection, photographer unknown.
History:
In November 1939, California Public Utilities Commission ordered Pacific Electric to restore rail service on the Glendale-Burbank line with PCC cars. In February 1940 thirty double-ended cars were ordered from Pullman-Standard. All cars were ordered with new Westinghouse multiple control system that would allow these PCCs to be coupled into trains. Seventeen cars went into service on the Glendale-Burbank line in November 1940 and in the following January, the other thirteen started running on the Venice Short Line; because of the poor track on the latter line all cars were assigned to Glendale-Burbank, where they ran until the abandonment in 1956. After three years of storage in the abandoned subway tunnel, all 30 were sold to the General Urquiza Railway in Buenos Aires, Argentina. None of them were preserved.