Wilkes-Barre
Wilkes-Barre Railway
 #614 in Public Square, Wilkes Barre. The Fort Durkee Hotel os in the background. The car is lettered "S" for Sugar Notch route, which was abandoned August 6, 1946.
Philadelphia Railways was presented with a fleet of 30 cars by the emergency fleet corporation, a government agency.  The cars were being built for Southern States Power Company properties by J. G. Brill in Philadelphis.  They were seized for WWI war service.
When the war ended, the Philadelphia system could not afford to buy them so they were sold. Wilkes-Barre had 14 of them, and Atlantic City had 10.
Caption location data from Maurice Grimes
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