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Nostalgia & History > Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You?Date: 08/30/14 21:09 Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: MartyBernard This photo and caption are from the Oregon Historical Society's Photograph Collection.
OLD STREETCARS IN FLAMES AT PORTLAND YARD, METAL LATER SALVAGED [Graphic], 07/00/1940 Call Number: 010451 Database: OCLC-MARC Bibliographic (OCLC) 1940! Bad timing to burn your old street cars. Marty Bernard  Date: 08/30/14 22:02 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: WestinAshahr A Streetcar Named On Fire?
Date: 08/30/14 22:12 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: oldhead one of my nightmares?
Date: 08/30/14 22:20 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: MojaveBill An early ALCO Diesel?
Bill Deaver Tehachapi, CA Date: 08/30/14 22:20 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: DNRY122 Pacific Electric sold all their 1200-class cars except 1299 to Kaiser Steel in Fontana in 1951. They were much better cars than the ex-IER and NWP "Blimps" but they didn't have the same passenger carrying capacity. Here again, the cars were set on fire to clear out the non-metallic contents and make them ready for the open-hearth furnaces. Earlier casualties were the 800-class cars, most of which were scrapped and burned at PE's Torrance Shops in 1940-41. In one of those "O saddest words of tongue or pen: 'It might have been'" situations, had the 800s lasted another two years, PE might not have needed the "Blimps" and some of the 1200s might have survived long enough to be saved by what is now Orange Empire Ry. Museum.
Date: 08/30/14 23:19 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: MartyBernard Reminds me of the picture of the burning of the PE cars on Terminal Island in the Port of LA.
Marty Date: 08/30/14 23:30 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: TCnR I'm thinking of the Milwaukee Observation car that was burned, apparently there was only one or two photos of it happening. It made for some bad PR and apparently made the Mgmt upset about rail photographers.
http://trainweb.org/DOMEmain/picMILW189.jpg It was a very common method of separating metal and non-metal at the time. What would you do with a car with all the metal removed anyways, it's a pile of stuff that would have to be hauled away somewhere else. Date: 08/31/14 07:58 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: valmont the Hindenburg ...
Date: 08/31/14 08:23 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: billmeeker WestinAshahr Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > A Streetcar Named On Fire? Good one! Date: 08/31/14 09:52 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: jo-tower Burning CNS&M cars after the abandonment.
Date: 08/31/14 12:14 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: 90mac National City Lines.
Date: 08/31/14 15:36 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: Q4960 What's the picture remind me of? Some chili I ate once [and never again!].
Roger Holmes Date: 08/31/14 18:06 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: trainman630 I've seen hot moves before, but never quite like this.....
Date: 08/31/14 21:02 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: LarryDoyle Hell
Date: 08/31/14 21:08 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: unclebob GE toasters?
Date: 09/01/14 01:26 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: UPDetector OHH THE DERAILING HUMANITY!!!!!
Date: 09/01/14 12:34 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: rgcw5 turbo blew....wait what?
Date: 09/01/14 13:20 Re: Of What Does This 1940 Picture Remind You? Author: jmcbryde1499 The Hindenburg?
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