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No's 93-98: "Vancouver 40's"
Built
 ca. 1901
Class
I
Body
Brill
Trucks
Two, Brill MT
Motors
2, GE-800 (25 hp), Later: 2, GE-58 (36.5 hp)
Controllers
 GE K-10, Later: GE K-11
Brakes
Orig: handbrakes, Later: National straight air
Length
33' 11.5"
Width
?
Weight
21,600 lbs loaded (10,512 empty)
Seats
Two, longitudinal
Capacity
34 passengers (53 with standees)
Gauge
Narrow (42")

 
Comments: These were ex-Portland Railway Company (first of that name) cars originally numbered in the 40's and used on the Portland-Vancouver run, hence their nickname.

Retirement:  All listed as "temporarily out of service" in 1917.  Officially retired at the time of the Portland Electric Power Company takeover in 1924.  Still on the inventory in 1928, though as "unserviceable."  No note on actual scrapping date. 

Technical Notes:  Air brakes were added to all six cars in this series in 1912.  In 1913 they received Nelson safety fenders along with most trolleys in town.  Cars 95 and 97 were listed as having GE K-10 controllers, instead of K-11's like the others (K-11 controllers could handle 60 hp).  This would point to the series arriving with K-10 controllers and GE-800 motors, and
then being upgraded as new motors became available.



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