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CRP&L Co. Cars 649-658

Builder's photo of Car #658 taken in 1912.  Photo from  BJK collection.

#649-658 - Ten closed P.A.Y.E. cars built by the G.C. Kuhlman Car Co. in 1912.   

Number

In service

Body

Length

Length over bumpers

649-658

1912

Closed

28’ 8 5/16”

45’ 5/16”

Width

Height

Seats

Seats capacity

Weight

12’ ½ ”

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- GE88A

Motor HP

Compressor

Controllers

Trolleys

Date scrapped or out of service

 

1-GE

CP-27

2-GE

K-36B

1

OOS

1938-1940

Remarks:  Cars were used as both wide gauge and standard gauge (not at the same time).  All cars were builder’s order #545.  Car #649 destroyed by fire caused by a trolley break 6/13/1933.  Car #653 damaged by fire 3/7/1938, burnt at Merritt St. 5/4/1938.  Car #655 sold to Columbus Pipe & Equipment.  Cars #657-658 OOS 8/5/1938; 650-652, 654 OOS 10/13/1938; 656 OOS 9/11/1939; and 655 OOS 3/13/1940.

Car #650 at the south end of the standard gauge Steelton-Summit line.  Buckeye Steel Castings Co. is in the background.  Parsons Avenue is the street and the track in the foreground is for the Scioto Valley Traction Interurban line.

Steelton-Summit line car #654  headed for the Buckeye Steel Castings Co. plant.