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
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Tue Sep 09, 2003 2:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Hershey Interurban? *PIC* |
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 |
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| Author: | Fred Krock [ Tue Sep 09, 2003 5:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey Interurban? |
>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 |
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| Author: | Tolbert V. Prowell [ Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey Interurban? |
> 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 |
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:30 am ] |
| Post subject: | Thanks |
Fred and Tolbert, Thanks for the info. Were any of the cars from this line saved? Boyd bowens@rypn.org |
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| Author: | ge13031 [ Wed Sep 10, 2003 8:46 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey cocoa beans |
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 |
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| Author: | Ted Miles [ Wed Sep 10, 2003 4:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey Street Cars |
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 |
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| Author: | Boyd Owens [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 8:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey Street Cars |
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 |
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| Author: | Frank Hicks [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey Street Cars |
> 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 |
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| Author: | Matt Conrad [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 1:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey Street Cars |
> 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 |
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| Author: | Phil Mulligan [ Thu Sep 11, 2003 3:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey 3 |
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 |
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| Author: | James F. Boylan [ Fri Sep 12, 2003 8:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Hershey 3 |
> 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. TyburnRR@cs.com |
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