Cleveland
to Brooklyn,
via Buffalo
Once Buffalo's fleet of inactive PCC's became available to us, we had
to arrange to get them to Brooklyn. We used equipment riggers who put
each car on a low-boy trailer and then trucked them down to the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. We had to build 700 feet of track at a rate of 50
feet a day to accommodate the PCC's being delivered.
Project update 2007-
One of these trolleys. along with 3 ex-Boston PCC trolleys are
still stored in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
As for the other 11 PCC cars that
were stored in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, currently we do not know their
whereabouts. If you have any information regarding the 11 PCC
trolleys that were stored in the Navy Yard, please contact us.
Below you will find pictures and documentation regarding these trolleys.
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Greg At the NFTA shops in
Buffalo, NY,
we inspected the PCC fleet prior to moving them to
Brooklyn.
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A temporary storage
track was built at the Navy Yard. BHRA had to build 700 feet of track
at a rate of 50 feet a day to accommodate the delivery of the cars!
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Can you imagine this
convoy on the highway? Delivery of Car 53 to the temporary track at the
Navy Yard.
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Car 70 was brought
directly to the BHRA shops in Red Hook.
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Preparing to release
Car 70.
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Muscling Car 70 onto
BHRA rails.
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The temporary
storage track.
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As seen from the
water at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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The
check we used to pay for them (with areas blurred for security
purposes). The folks in Buffalo were glad that the trains
were going to stay in the State of NY. They gave us a really good
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| A Story About the PCCs From the Buffalo News |
Our bid was accepted by the
NFTA (the agency that runs Buffalo's rail transit system), and these PCC cars became BHRA property. |
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The Last Know Press Coverage of the PCCs Stored in the Navy Yard. A New York Times article from 2005.
More about The disappearance of these PCCs:
It is almost unfathomable that 11 PCCs (weighing 20 Tons each), a
diesel locomotive and hundreds of feet of track could disappear
without a trace. However, this seems to be what happened with BHRA's
property that was stored in the Navy Yard.
BHRA was never formally served with an eviction notice by the Navy
Yard. Furthermore, the Navy Yard has refused to tell us where these
cars were move to, or what happened to them. Another organization
may have possession of these trolleys or parts from these trolleys.
However, we have not been able to find any record of their
disposition or destruction. If you have any information on the
whereabouts of these PCCs, please contact us.
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Delivery
of PCC's to Brooklyn
