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| Current Photo, Date and Credit (Photo © PTM) | In Service, Date and Credit (Photo © PTM) |
| Car Number | 2 | Car Builder | J.G. Brill Company |
| Year Built | 1923 | Year Acquired | 1974 |
| Type | Line Car | Seats | 0 |
| Length | 44'4" | Width | 8'3" |
| Height | 11'11" | Weight | XX,XXX lbs (XX tons) |
| Max Speed | XX mph | Status | Operated occasionally |
PTM car 2 began its life in 1923 as snow sweeper C-125 of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT). It was originally purchased as part of a large equipment order placed in 1922 that included 56 work cars and over 500 passenger cars (including 5326 and 8042, also in the museum's collection). As an economy move in this large scale modernization, the new work cars were equipped with motors and controls from 1890s passenger cars which were being scrapped at the same time. As a result, these cars survived into the mid 1970s with electrical equipment that was obsolete in 1910.
These cars served PRT and its successors Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) and Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) until 1974, when the 32 sweepers were declared surplus and offered to museums at nominal cost. PTM acquired two of these cars primarily for the wide-gauge trucks and vintage electrical components that they could provide for future projects. The second car, C-134, was stripped of its components and scrapped in 1975.
Museum volunteers recognized the need for an all-purpose work car which could be used to maintain the track and overhead lines, so C-125 was stripped of its brooms and drive mechanisms and outfitted as a utility car, with internal work benches and parts storage, and a wooden platform on the roof for overhead line maintenance, complete with a hatch from the interior of the car for access. It was assigned the number 2 in service at the museum.
Car 2 was rendered surplus by the donation of car M210 to the museum by Port Authority Transit (PAT) in 1995. M210 was built specifically as a line car by Pittsburgh Railways in 1940, and contains much specialized equipment unavailable in car 2. Car 2 is currently stored operable at the museum, and is occasionally used for work service. Most recently, it was used in the summer of 2004 to move PTM's collection down to the new Trolley Display Building.
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