Buenos Aires trolleys

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:16 pm

Trolley barn in 1996. Still an operating system or a museum?http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?january04/01-28-04/BuenosAires258.652+9069atPolvorinUBahnDepot10-7-96TW.jpg

kjohnson · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:56 pm

Greetings:Recently I was visited by a volunteer member of the Buenos Aires museum. They have a web site, which I am not sure of the web address. They are a volunteer group, operate weekends only through a neighborhood district in Buenos Aires, which is about 3/4 of a mile in length. They have 6 or 7 cars. The two shown in the photo are ex-Oporto Portugal cars. They have a small mix of foriegn cars and one original car body (As I recall). The barn they use is also used for the underground subway cars for Buenoes Aires.Karl Johnson

Steve Singer · **Posted:** Fri Jul 22, 2005 3:31 pm

I was there in Nov 2004. The original BA car is now operational. They also run a couple of the old pantographed BA subway cars. A very nice operation, with all cars beautifully restored.

cwylde · **Posted:** Sat Jul 23, 2005 9:38 pm

Were there any ex-Pacific Electric interurbans around? The last I heard of them was that they we near a beach outside Buenos Aires. These were not PCCs, but 1100 series cars.

Bob Kutella · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:40 am

Perhaps ten years ago I was treated to a shop tour on the General Urquiza line. Some Museum equipment was stored there in the yard including two electric locos, one of which strongly reminded me of a PE Baldwin Westinghouse engine. Out back there was one PE car modified to serve as a line car. Inside the shop were more wonderments including an odd homemade contraption sort of resembling a school bus body on a flat car, complete with retriever and trolley pole; and I think a very tiny slope end steeple cab inside the shop. At that time I believe the only overhead wire left there was in the shops complex and some small amount on the main and leads to get in there.Bob Kutella

Steve Singer · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 8:36 am

They are under the "care" of the Argentine Ferroclub, but in Nov 2004 were quietly rusting away.

Frank Hicks · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:11 pm

Steve Singer wrote:

They are under the "care" of the Argentine Ferroclub, but in Nov 2004 were quietly rusting away.

According to the Ferroclub website, the line car (ex-PE "Hollywood" car 758, now General Urquiza 3758) is stored indoors and complete, albeit in kind of rough shape, at their Estacion Lynch site and has seen some wreck damage repair work within the past several years. I don't know much about the PE "Eleven" body they're supposed to own as well.