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Posted by Dan Lawrence on Sat Jul 29 19:57:48 2000, in response to Re: RED BIRDS TO SCRAP,
posted by bigedirtmanl on Sat Jul 29 01:57:26 2000.
I posted this before in a thread that went to car weights:
Chicago beat everybody in 1904, when Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway car 717, a Barney & Smith product of 1894 was burned in a fire and sent to the ACF plant in Jeffersonville Indiana for rebuilding. ACF built a heavy steel body in the Met pattern and returned the car to West Side, where it now tipped the scales at 50 Tons. Imagine the pounding that behemoth gave the L!
The car stayed in passenger service until 1952, when CTA made it Snow Blower s-308, a job for which its weight made it admirably suited. It was scapped in August of 1957.
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