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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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