New Haven
Fair Haven & Westville Railroad
Interior of car 123. This became a Connecticut Company car
for the New Haven Division in 1904.  This car was built by Jackson & Sharp (serial no 283) in 1895 for Fair Haven & Westville as their #123.  Street Ry Journal said it had a Peckham 6E truck and air brakes(!) but the 1908 roster shows it with a Peckham 9A truck and hand brakes, which was probably original equipment.
The car went to Consolidated May 23 1904, and then to Conn Company on June 1 1907.  It was rebuilt to a city car around 1915: the 1914 valuation still lists it as a "Parlour Car", but in 1915 it turns up as city car 312, in Derby.  Around 1920 it was rebuilt into a "Conn Safety" car (that was the ConnCo term for them: single-truckers that had rear doors sealed up, bulkheads cut down about 2/3, and DH-10/CP-25 compressors added along with "deadman" buttons on their K-10 controllers), and was junked from Derby Division on April 13, 1926 (probably replaced by Birneys.)
Caption data from Bill Young
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