Nick's Used Car Lot

Nick is making lots of amazing deals! But don't get too excited. This Dallas double-ender PCC is not part of the IRM collection. We're just storing it temporarily for McKinney Avenue, its eventual permanent home. IRM is doing this as a good-will gesture for our friends in Dallas.

Here it is arriving at the front gate, then negotiating the tight turns at Springfield Ave. and Riverview, and then at Depot and Central.

We had the same driver from Silk Road as before with the Twin City car. He had the hardest job.








Then it had to be unloaded at Central onto the yard 6 leads.

This required chopping out the ice and frozen gravel from several places so the Joy engine could get through. All went well; Gerry was running the locomotive.

And it is now safely back on track.

So I didn't get anything else accomplished today. And man, was it cold! At least this is good training for the next five cars to arrive. Heh.

Today also happened to be the big holiday lunch for the Wednesday crowd. Phyllis Schauer is retiring at the end of the month, so it was also a farewell party. Here she is cutting the cake. I'm sure everyone will miss her!


Update: Our good friend Tom Hunter sent us the below photo of a car from this series in service on Route 8 in Dallas in 1948 (3334 was originally Dallas 612) , about ten years before the cars were sold to Boston.