This appears to be Rankin Car House where cars were stored. PRCo stored unneeded cars here but removed and kept batteries and other hardware in case the cars needed to be pressed into service.

Pittsburgh PA Photo 1549

Pittsburgh Railways | Port Authority Transit

This appears to be Rankin Car House where cars were stored. PRCo stored unneeded cars here but removed and kept batteries and other hardware in case the cars needed to be pressed into service. If such demand did not happen, the older cars were then scrapped. Here we see PCCs, possibly a 1400- or 1500-series on our left, and an old 4000- or 4100-series cars converted for work service with an "M"-number. Rankin Car House was on the 67-Swissvale line just outbound of the Rankin bridge.

R Hill photo courtesy the Ken Josephson collection; caption assistance by James B Holland

Back to Conventional Cars thru 3800s

Back to Pittsburgh

To State-by-state listings

Back to Main Page