Vagões

	Vagões Besides the cars for the public transport, the Porto tram has, like most companies, a number of works cars. Included are the vehicles for transport by the permanent way department, which are called Zorra's, for railgrinding, for overhead repair and breakdown assistance.
		Nowadays overhead repair is done by road trucks. But car 49 is preserved, together with two Hansa-Loyd road trucks from 1929, in the museum of Massarelos. In rare cases, when the trucks cannot reach the spot, the 49 is put on the job again. The 49 was constructed in 1932 by the workshops of the CCFP.
		In the period about 1910-1925 there were probably five vagões. In old reports the numbers 221, 222 & 224 are named "Wagon", while the 223 & 226 were called "Rebocador" or "Reboque". In the 1928 Boavista fire two cars went lost. Breakdowncar 76 is still in use. Probably this car was original used for goods trams. The cars 73 & 74, equal to the 76, were already withdrawn for many years. They were not used as breakdown cars, but for transport purposes only.
		Railgrinding car 48 did have a car-body originating from an electrified 7-window mule car. Later (around 1965) the 48 did get the car-body of the 111. In later years this car was hardly used. On the day the Boavista depot was to be evacuated, it appeared the car was locked up by a pile of rails on the track. Some tramfans did a heavy job to free the car and save it from scrap together with the depot. Now this historic valuable car is in the Massarelos depot.