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In <43pkjs$i86@news.voicenet.com> M Greene <mgreene@omni.voicenet.com> says

> 	The B&QT cars were 8'4" wide, like the SEPTA cars.  Inciden-
> tally, I think one of the ex-SEPTA cars is painted in the postwar BOT
> paint scheme, which, of course, was never authentically used by a
> postwar PCC, though the 1936 PCC's in Brooklyn all wore them.

You mean the green and silver?  My first recollection of the B&QT cars was
in the early forties when they were painted the standard BOT maroon and
buff.  I do not think that the green and silver was ever under the BOT.
The NYCTA was already in charge when that change was made.

As I remember, the PCCs used to operate on the Coney Island Avenue and
Gravesend Avenue lines.  Not sure where else; they were based at one car
barn somewhere off of Prospect Avenue in not quite Park Slope.  Of course
they wound up their life running along Church Avenue.

Do you know if the 8000s and other cars WERE actually wider than the PCCs
or was that just my imagination?

Harvey

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