1600 is the post-WW2 All-Electric PCC Demonstrator, and is at Craft Ave Car House, circa 1954.

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1600 is the post-WW2 All-Electric PCC Demonstrator, and is at Craft Ave Car House, circa 1954. While PRCo Ordered 1600-1699 as Air-Electric cars as Job 1646 from St Louis Car, the order was amended to include the All-Electric demonstrator, this car, under Job 1646A. 1600 was delivered on September 5 1945 after 28 of the 99 air cars were delivered. Pride in new equipment saw 1600 rotated on almost every line system-wide with final assignment to Craft Car House. 1600 was nicknamed the Queen Mary since she was one-of-a-kind; as such, she was different and not much liked. Sent to Homewood for an heavy overhaul, she was destroyed in the May 1955 Homewood Shop fire

Pennsylvania Trolley Museum Archives photo courtesy the Bill Volkmer collection; caption assistance from James B Holland

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