BOB2 Wrote:
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> Pinacate panther Wrote:
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> > The 1454 is called a freight motor.
> > Seeing its two freight doors, did it also carry
> > mail, express, and other general freight?
> >
> > I assume OERM has one like it?
>
> It's not two "freight motors". It's an electric
> PE locomotive towing baggage freight motor.
> Sometimes a baggage freight motor could also be
> found hauling a freight car, as these weren't as
> powerful as the electric freight locomotive towing
> it in this picture. A PE electric freight
> locomotive like the one towing the baggage freight
> motor in the picture could haul a whole train and
> were often used as a double header to haul heavier
> trains.
>
> Here is David Coscia's list of surviving PE
> "stuff" and PE equipment. OERM has a 1600 class
> electric locomotive, the PE 1624, and there was at
> least one 1400 class "freight motor" later
> converted to a tower car, which used to be on
> display in Seal Beach at one time.
>
> David Coscia's list of PE stuff left.


Bob, Ten years ago, OERM was offered the 1734 (sitting on freight trucks) in Seal Beach and OERM DECLINED.

It finally got new paint after the museum slobs were finally kicked out soap opera.

Still sits next to library as of this date.




Pacific Electric Red Car No. 1734
January 7, 2022

City landmark

Car No. 1734 of the Pacific Electric Railway sits on the greenbelt near the Mary Wilson Library in Seal Beach on a few remaining tracks of the Newport-Balboa Line Right of Way.

Local resident Virginia Hadley worked to rescue this Pacific Electric tower repair car, built in 1925, from being turned into a reef in the 1970s.

Hadley then helped form the Seal Beach His
torical Society that used the Red Car as a museum.

It was chockful of pictures, artifacts and memorabilia of days gone by in Seal Beach.

The car’s deterioration led to a public outcry that resulted in the City terminating the Society’s lease, removal of all the artifacts and the sale of the car to the local Lions Club. It has been repaired and repainted, but sits empty on the tracks to nowhere.