Skippack PA
Elmer Fry writes: "The picture,
to the best of my knowledge, is of Montgomery County Rapid Transit Company
car No. 1 at Skippack terminal yr.1908. The car was built by Stephenson,
with Peckham No. 26 trucks. other pictures I have seen of this car
at a later date it had Brill trucks. The Line is covered in Harry
Foesig's book "Trolleys of Montgomery county". Harold Cox published
the book back around 1970. Ben Rohrbeck books "Pennsylvania Street Railways"
(both editions have good pictures of that car. This line ran all the way
to Harleysville from Norristown. It used the Reading Traction tracks
to Trooper where got on it's own PRW."
Bob Lewis writes: "Skippack
is on the Skippack pike (I used to ride my bike along it, but the parallel
Montgomery County Passenger Railway, a subsidiary of Reading Transit, had
already abandoned its rail service. I don't believe they ever subtituted
operations with a bus service. They were projected to run up to East
Penn (a town on the Reading's Perkiomen branch, but never made it. They
also had a branch to Telford, abandoned very early; of course they connected
with LVT there. They
came into Norristown on trackage rights over ReadingTransit.
Dan Borgnis Collection
