I was given the image below of an interurban?, that appears to say Hershey Transit Company on it. Does anyone know if this would have been a Hershey's plant railroad, or one of the operations down in Cuba?

Boyd


bowens@rypn.org

>According to "Dutch Country Trolleys" by Frederick A Kramer, #24 is one of two similar freight motors owned by Hershey Transit in Pennsylvania. They were used for general freight and for collecting milk in cans for the chocolate factory.


fkrock@pacbell.net

> I was given the image below of an
> interurban?, that appears to say Hershey
> Transit Company on it. Does anyone know if
> this would have been a Hershey's plant
> railroad, or one of the operations down in
> Cuba?

> Boyd

The Hershey Transit Co. provided trolley service in the Hershey, PA area till December, 1946. This picture probably was taken early in 1947 when the system and cars were being scrapped.

Tolbert V. Prowell


aeriola@adelphia.net

Fred and Tolbert,

Thanks for the info.
Were any of the cars from this line saved?

Boyd


bowens@rypn.org

Just an "oh by the way" the last of the Hershey Co.s
cocoa bean boxcars is at LSRA in Wellington, OH. Makes a neat storage facility, fully insulated with an overhead tram used to move partitions that comes in handy to move those heavy parts around.


lamontdc@adelphia.net

I think that a Hershey car body is in the Collection of the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton. Since they have cars scattered all around eastern Pennsylvania, I don't know if it has made it to Scranton yet.

Some car bodies take years to restore, but some day there may again be a car from that system alive again.

Ted Miles

ted_miles@nps.gov

Thanks Ted.
I looked on the Electric City Trolley Museum web site, and they do indeed have Hershey line car #3's carbody. No photo of it though, wonder what condition it's in.

Boyd


bowens@rypn.org

> I looked on the Electric City Trolley Museum
> web site, and they do indeed have Hershey
> line car #3's carbody. No photo of it
> though, wonder what condition it's in.

Not good. The body is sitting at the Germantown car house in Philadelphia. I saw it from a little ways off; I don't know whether it has any doors cut into it, but it didn't look to be in very good shape either way.

Frank Hicks

Preserved North American Electric Railway Cars
F-Hicks@wiu.edu

> Not good. The body is sitting at the
> Germantown car house in Philadelphia. I saw
> it from a little ways off; I don't know
> whether it has any doors cut into it, but it
> didn't look to be in very good shape either
> way.

> Frank Hicks

#3 was converted from a combine, IIRC. It's been 10 years since I was active at the Penns Landing Trolley so my memory of Hershey 3 is vague. IIRC a box was built over the original car. I *think* the car still had trucks when I saw it at the Front & Laurel storage yard, but it was pretty rough.

The South Carolina Railroad Museum
mconrad@compuzone.net

Hershey line car #3 was rescued from a junkyard without equipment. It was in rough shape then.

It is currently on PCC shop trucks and is a long term project. The body of a semi-convertable combine is indeed under the flat siding.

Electric City Trolley Museum Association

> The body of a
> semi-convertable combine is indeed under the
> flat siding.
Because the passenger car lettering under the
wood work car siding seems to be cut by the
work car door, I think that either the combine
door was at the other end, or the car was first
converted to all passenger configuration.


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