Someone should be shot for allowing 601 to deteriorate. When Mr. Everette White passed on ownership and responsibility for the car became ambiguous. When alive he was a "one man" operation and refused to involve anyone else in decisions regarding the cars. In later years he became very irritable. I was a child volunteer along with others and he basically shooed us away. He was a "one man band". He wore out his welcome with the SIRT who stored the car at the St. George yard where I helped touch up the paint in 1959. The story that the cars had to be moved because the track was being pulled up is nonsense. For a while it was stored by the NYCTA and they would not permit access. I tried. The Staten Island cars (red mikes) were removed by truck and car float from the Arlington Proctor and Gamble plant. Some went to the Bronx. A switch and some trolley rails are still under the pavement on Stapleton across the street from the library.
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