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[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:

> I wonder if the Johnstown PCCs and the well maintained DC Transit
> PCCs would have found a home on PAT's lines in the mid to late 1960's.
> Shall we play a little game of "What if?" :-)

	Or how about this  --  Melbourne, Australia, could upgrade their 
system with new equipment much sooner and sell their old equipment from 
the 1930s to Pgh in 1965.  Melbourne's equipment would be in far better 
shape than anything in Pgh!  It is also narrow and double ended!  It is 
more difficult to widen the gauge on the trucks than narrow it, but it 
could be done!
	To get the Wash DC cars, Pgh could have bought them from Sarajevo 
and Barcelona so the latter two cities could upgrade with new equipment.
	A total of 281 cars were still stored on DC property as of the 
publishing of *PCC Cars of North America* by Harold E Cox in 1963 - so 
maybe Pgh could get some of them in 64 or 65 without going thru the 
muddleman!
	Baltimore might have had some junkers when they folded which 
would have lasted until 1964-65, but they would have been Pullmans  --  
very glad PRCo never got Pullmans.  Bean Town cars would be Pullmans, 
too, but those picture window cars were extremely handsome!
	Then there is the possibility of picking up 3rd hand cars from 
Mexico City - the ex-Detroit cars 2102-2180 (Mexico numbering.)  These 
had B-3 trucks, too!!!!!!!  Some of these cars were 48.5 feet according 
to Cox.

-- 
James B. Holland
       PITTSBURGH RAILWAYS COMPANY (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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