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Early Electric Cars of Philadelphia 1885-1911 Harold E Cox Soft Cover
Early Electric Cars of Philadelphia 1885-1911 by Harold E Cox Binding edge cover has some damage.
Soft Cover
136 pages
Copyright 1969
CONTENTS
Introduction1
The Sources1
The Properties2
The Original Car Fleets4
Cars & Miscellaneous Equipment 6
Miscellaneous Car Equipment10
Car Heating10
Trolley Poles12
Destination Signs12
Appointments14
Color Schemes15
Controller Regulators16
Whistles16
Headlights16
Track Scrapers16
Fenders16
Cannibalization19
Passenger Control19
Disposition22
The Classification System25
In the Beginning26
Ridge Avenue Conduit Line 26
Wharton System26
Lehigh Avenue Railway26
EDCO System and Cars26
The McLaughlin Car26
Closed Car Descriptions28
A-1 St. Louis 18-foot28
A-2 Jackson & Sharp 18' 28
A-3 Pullman 18-foot32
A-4 Brill 18-foot33
C-4 Brill 24-foot cut34
The Metropolitan Car 36
A-5 American 18-foot38
A-5 American Pay Within 40
Single-Truck PW39
Self-propelled Gas Car 39
A-6 Laclede 18-foot42
C-6 Laclede 24-foot Cut 42
Laclede Train Operation 44
A-7 Philadelphia 18-foot 51
B-1 St. Louis 20-foot 51
B-4 Brill 20-foot53
B-6 Laclede 20-foot54
B-7 Philadelphia 20-foot 57
C-7 Philadelphia 24-foot 58
Catherine & Bainbridge Sts. Cut 58
Catherine & Bainbridge Sts. DT58
Philadelphia Combine 58
Car 299858
D-4 Brill 26-foot59
D-41 Brill 26-foot SC59
E-1 St. Louis 28-foot Cut 61
The Philadelphia Standard Car 63
Classes E-41 to E-4463
The Twining Car68
The Pay-Withins68
E-45 The Near-Sides81
Miscellaneous Closed Cars82
Hestonville Rebuilds82
People's Rebuilds82
Electric Rebuilds82
Lehigh Ave. Rebuilds84
Philadelphia Rebuilds85
Brill 16-foot box89
Lamokin 16-foot box89
Parlor Cars90
Edison-Beach Storage Battery Car90
Open Cars
K-1 St.Louis 8-bench93
K-2 Jackson & Sharp 8-b 93
Jackson & Sharp 10-b 93
K-4 Brill 8-bench95
K-6 Laclede 8-bench96
K-8 Barney & Smith 8-b98
L-5 American 8-bench100
M-4 Brill 9-bench100
M-5 American 9-bench102
N-1 St.Louis 9-bench102
N-51 American 9-bench102
N-52 Open trailer Cars104
P-1 St. Louis 10-bench 106
P-9 Lamokin 10-bench111
Q-4 Brill 12-bench111
R-4 Brill 12-bench113
Duquesne Type Open Cars 117
Double-Truck Party Cars 118
Hestonville Party Cars119
Car Tables120
Open Cars121
Closed Cars125
Standard Cars131
Cars Sold135
Cars Loaned and Rented136
INTRODUCTION
This is the second in a series of volumes which will cover the rolling stock and operations of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co., its subsidiaries and its predecessors. This volume attempts to cover all electric cars which were purchased or built and operated in Philadelphia from the earliest experiments in electrification in the mid-1880's down to the coming of the Mitten Management and the re-equipping of the line after 1911.
This is a companion volume to Surface Cars of Philadelphia 1911-1965 which discussed the latter-day equipment and it will be followed by a third volume which will deal with utility cars of the electric period as well as cable, steam and horse cars, and a fourth volume devoted to routings from 1858 to the present,
The attempt to piece together the early history of P R T is far more difficult than was the task of recounting the cars of the Near-Side period and after. There is no known inventory of the cars prior to 1909 which can be considered reliable. All evidence points to the fact that the company itself was only partially aware of what was or was not on the property at any given time and accounts of equipment on hand at earlier dates is subject to considerable question. Fortunately, the company was consistent in certain areas, one being that it seldom renumbered equipment after the initial merger of the major underlying companies, and another being that it scrapped few cars which could be used for any conceivable purpose prior to 1910. Even cars which had been hit by trains were rebuilt virtually from the trucks up in the company's own shops. In addition, passenger cars which were converted to utility cars were usually permitted to retain the same numbers which they carried as passenger cars, a circumstance which makes the tracing of their careers significantly easier.
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