Thursday Proto Photo, May 18/17

[pjm20]

I dug up an old thread on just that type of car, lots of good links to more pics!
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=37186.msg445403;topicseen#msg445403

Thank you very much, I tried looking these up too, but ran into the same problem as @Catt .

[pjm20]

I have found that the keyword to search for these is "dropped deck" centerbeam flat car. Among the things I have dug up on the googles, here is a patent application: http://www.google.com/patents/US6920829

[MK]

Woodruff, SC.

[Kisatchie]

Was in San Francisco for 31 hours (and spent 26 hours to get there and back) for a business meeting.  Afterwards I rode a couple of PCC cars and a Milan car.  PCC 1051 was recently restored by my employer. Here's a cable car on Powell Street:

San Francisco WAS one of my favorite cities. I spent 9 great months there when I was in the Army attending Defense Languages Institute learning German.


Hmm... too bad SF is in
California...

[R L Smith]

San Francisco WAS one of my favorite cities. I spent 9 great months there when I was in the Army attending Defense Languages Institute learning German.


Hmm... too bad SF is in
California...

Interesting. I heard a lot of German while riding the PCCs and walking around.  Lots of tourist groups apparently; one couple I spoke with is on a 15-day US tour of many of our western National Parks.