Here's 1210, the rebuilt end at the rear, southbound on Webster Avenue, north of Fordham Avenue, University, and Square, adjacent to the Third Avnue Elevated's junction for the branch to its Bronx Park Station and Terminal.
An ex-San Antonio former narrow-gauge 1242 on the 161st & 163rd St. Crosstown on the ahort stretch of Jerome Avenue that stioll had strfeetcar tracks between 161st St. and the McCoombs Dam Bridge to 155th Street Manhattan, also used by Ogden Avenue cars:
Previous post corrected.
Note the difference, 1235 behind Kingsbridge carhouse:
1256: 12 regolar windoows and one small window
1235: 12 regular windows and a door de-activated.
The car originally had four double doors, b ut Third Avenue cars had a dounle entrance door and a single rear door. 1256 came that way
Another view of 1256 on Universoty Avednue
Found my not-very-good photo showing the repaired damaged end of 1210. Did the best I could with it and cleaned-up the photo posted earlier of the undamaged end:
The last three, 1260 - 1262, Brill, from Sunberry and Balinsgrove Ry., Balinsgrove, PA. On University Avenue until it went bus, but occasionaly on Ogden:
Hope to find. scan, and post the missing pictures.
Note cars missing for numbers 1226 and 1227. Whein I visited the Garden Avenue Yard for the first time at age 15 in 1947, I saw two derellict Connecticut Company steel car bodies. I was told they had not been ovehauled and used because of too much rust. They were gone by my next visit. Possibly the two numbers were held for them in case their rehbilitation was necded?
1257 abd 1258 were from the Interstate Street Railway of Attleboro. Massachustts, built by Wasoon. Lacking scanned photo at the moment.
1259 was the first and somewhat exprimental Third Avenue home-built car. Hope to find an old negative for scanning for thid one.
1250 was one St. Luis-built, ex-Kankakee & Urbana car, like 1201-1225 too wide for use other than the Webster & White Plains Av. "W" line. Currently lacking a scanned photo, but identacle in appearance to 1201-1225 after the door arrangement was altered to the TARS-TATS usual practice.
1251-1256, American Car Co., ex=Lake Superior District Power Co., Ironwood, MI.
University Avenue Line "U," then used on the "C" Bronx and Van Courtland Parks, and on Bailey Avenue:
I thought 1251-1256 the best of the 1200s.
Yes. I never knew they were narrow gauge untiil the data in the Siefried book was shown to me.
Similarly, the Los Angeles narrow-gauge, also 3' - 6," were standard width.
Washington, DC, were one-window shorter to fit the Georgetpwn carhouise transfer table, but I do not know about the Lost Angeles Railways PCCs.
Were the narrow gage cars the same size as the other cars?
1230-1239, ex San Antonio, Texas, Public Servive (3'-6" gauge) American Car. Co.:
161-163rd St. Crosstown:
Headed for Kingsbridge Carhouse at 225th & Broadway, Mable Hill:
No 1226 or 1227 that I know of.
1228 and 1229 similar to above, also Osgood Bradley, but normal TARs-TATS width and tapered ends. Could be used wired-system-wide, but used mainly on Webster. From Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Northern States Power Company:
1201-1225, built 1924, Osgood Bradley, wider than all other TARS-TATS cars. Square, non-tapered ends, bought 1933, used only on Webster Avenue. 1210 had one end damaged as was repaired wirh that end rapaired as in a regular homemade lightweight
More to come
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