
Parade Two now gets underway (setting off from 1300), featuring cars in order of their construction. 1758 is a double truck thirteen bench open car assembled in Brazil to a J.G. Brill design by the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power Company, Limited circa 1911 as their number 1758. The trucks, controllers and traction motors of this car are not known. This car was built to the standard gauge. The Companhia de Transportes Coletivos Do Rio de Janeiro acquired the Rio de Janeiro Tramway, Light and Power Company on 1st January 1964; there was no renumbering of the cars as the system was in the process of being abandoned. 1758 was one of those imported into the United States by a consortium of trolley museums during 1965. 1758 was originally purchased by the Magee Transportation Museum where it was rebuilt to open the bulkhead behind the first bench on each end in order to better resemble the "Narragansett" design of open car. At the Magee Museum this car was lettered for the fictitious "Magee Shortline Electric Railway" and was number 1. After 1973 when the Magee collection was sold off 1758 passed into the ownership of three different trolley projects, none of which came to fruition. In 2006 after years of storage 1758 was acquired by the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum and rebuilt to operate on the Pennsylvania Trolley gauge.
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