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TORONTO PCC CAR #4608 has been successfully converted from its original Toronto Canada gauge to a standard US gauge used by Old Pueblo Trolley. This was accomplished by swapping the Canadian gauge trucks with a set of trucks obtained from the Municipal Railway of San Francisco (MUNI). The car was lifted, the trucks swapped, and the track regauged over three days starting Tuesday, August 27, 2002.
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVE 1673 has been moved from its former resting place in Himmel Park in Tucson, Arizona, to the downtown railroad depot. Over the past decade, the Locomotive 1673 Task Force has done a wonderful job of cosmetically restoring the locomotive, moving it to the downtown Tucson railroad depot, and overseeing construction of a protective "car shed" type structure in its new location. The dedication of the "car shed" will be September 10, 2002 at 11:00 AM at the site of the old Southern Pacific depot in downtown Tucson on Toole Avenue. All are invited to attend.
The City of Tucson has purchased the former Southern Pacific Railroad Depot and they have begun a complete restoration of the main depot building and the three adjacent smaller buildings. The City's plan calls for devoting one of the buildings to use as a transportation museum. A number of people including some from the Old Pueblo Trolley organization have formed a Southern Arizona Transportation Museum Committee. Their mission is to make this plan become a reality.
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OLDEST KNOWN TUCSON TRANSIT VEHICLE TO BE ACQUIRED Old Pueblo Trolley has received a grant from the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission to cover purchase and moving of the body of a 1935 Tucson Rapid Transit Company bus. The bus is a 1935 Reo with a Superior body. It was made at the Reo factory in Lima, Ohio. A parts bus will also be acquired, containing many of the parts necessary for the eventual restoration of the Tucson bus.
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IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST in trolley track construction, it's
not too late for you to show up for new track work which starts in
Summer 2002. We begin by assembling three turnouts for installation
on 8th Street needed to activate two additional yard tracks as
shown above. The assembly will take all Summer and continue into
the Fall. This project will take about six months to complete and
is scheduled to be finished in early 2003.
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