CRP&L Co. Cars 537-585       

#537-585 - There is very little information about this series of numbers.   There is evidence of only four cars in this number series as follows:

Car #551 – Standard gauge, closed body, air brakes, two controllers and two trolley poles.  May have been built by the Laconia Car Co.

Car #554 – Standard gauge, body 29’, length over bumpers 37’, 44 seating capacity, 4-GE-54 motors, 25 HP, 2 controllers, and 2 trolley poles.  It was sold to the D.C.& P. Traction Co. March 1917 for $1450.  May have been built by the Laconia Car Co.

Car #571 – There is a picture of this car, but no data.

Car #574 – Open body with 13 cross seats, and no center aisle.  May have been built by the Laconia Car Co.

Car #551 stopped on the Fourth Street bridge just east of Columbus Union Station.  The photo was taken in 1914 on the standard gauge Steelton-Summit line.  This may have been a one of a kind car.  Unlike the vast majority of CRP&L Co.'s 1914 era streetcars this was more like an interurban with small vestibules and two motor trucks.  Photo from the DAK collection.