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CRP&L Co. Cars 596-625

A builder's photo of car #503 at the G.C. Kuhlman Car Co. plant in Cleveland. Photo from BJK collection.

#596-625 - Thirty closed P.A.Y.E. cars built by the G.C. Kuhlman Car Co. in 1909.        

Number

In service

Body

Length

Length over bumpers

596-625

5/13/1909

Closed

28’ 8 5/16“

45’ 5/16“

Width

Height

Seats

Seats capacity

Weight

12’ 1/2 “

2 long, center aisle

34

44,025

Builder

Trucks

Wheel base

Wheel diameter

Motors

G.C. Kuhlman

Car Co.

Brill D22A

Spec.

4’ 6”

33”/24”

2-GE-88A

Motor HP

Compressor

Controllers

Trolleys

Date scrapped or out of service

 

1-GE

CP-21

2-GE

K-36B

1

OOS

1932-1940

Remarks:  All cars were builder’s order #418 and cost $4006.92 each.  Car #596 was equipped with Brill 77E-1 trucks, GE 265A motors and K35JJ controller August, 1927.  Its trucks and motors were used on car #754. Car 602 was destroyed by fire at Milo 8/22/1930.  Cars #611 and 625 were sold to Columbus Pipe and Equipment in 1940.

Cars  #596 OOS 8/7/1935; 597, 600, 605, 614-616, 619-621, 624 OOS 8/5/1938; 622 OOS 12/29/1938; 598-599, 602-604, 606-609, 613, 617, 623 OOS 9/11/1939; 610, 612, 618 OOS 12-29-1939;  611, 625 OOS 3/13/1940; 618 OOS 3/14/1940.

A brand new car #625 with smartly dressed crew.  Photo from the Columbus Metropolitan Library collection

A well used #618 at the Kelton Avenue storage yard.  Photo from BJK collection.

Car #600 being scrapped at the Kelton Avenue shops in 1938.  Photo from BJK collection.