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Re:RE-Named Save the Philly B-1 Broad Street Cars! Photo : Sirt Car 501 shabby shape

Posted by Avid Reader on Thu Jul 13 10:02:50 2017, in response to Re: Photo : Sirt Car 501 shabby shape, posted by Avid Reader on Thu Jul 13 09:11:31 2017.

Then a campaign to save these cousin's of the Standards, and the SIRT Mue-1, must be mounted.























Good original photos of the B3 Broad Street cars. These 50 cars numbered from 151 to 200.
These cars saw 45 years of service and the fleet was formally retired in 1983 along with the 150 1928 B1 cars
and the 25 1936 "Bridge" B2 cars that were built for Bridge Line (Camden-Locust) service.
The current fleet of Kawasaki B4 cars would replace all three older car types.

There have been one each of these three cars saved for preservation and in storage at Fern Rock with 1928
car #1 in its original paint scheme. A fourth car was kept for parts (a 1928 I believe). I know of rail enthusiasts
that are trying to find a good place for these cars in a museum or some other sort of preserved state but have
run into storage problems - trying to keep them underground on spur tracks at or near stations such as lower
level PAT&Tison Station they have attracted homeless vagrants as an example.

In recent years SEPTA tried at one point to sell off these cars for scrap - but since SEPTA does not own them -
the four cars are City of Philadelphia property officially - the City ordered that they be kept.

The mechanical interior station sign was one of the more interesting features of the 1938 cars and it would be
interesting to find out when their use was discontinued. I recall these signs were painted over and wonder if
the mechanical destination roll sign itself was intact inside the box or was it removed...

A good source of Philadelphia transit pictures:
www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania
The Broad Street Subway section contains 547 photos of various types.

Long Island Mike 3/12/2017