City PCCs on the Interurbans

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Sat Jul 17 22:40:47 EDT 1999


Greetings!

Robert E. Rathke wrote:
> 
> Jim.
> 
> I have no answers to these questions, but a couple of observations on
> recent topics:
> 
> 1. In the two years (1936-38) that West Penn operated in
> McKeesport in the PRC PCC era, there must have been a good chance that 
> a PCC found its way onto West Penn tracks.

	An extremely slim chance here since since PCC car 1000 was placed 
into service on 1937.01.30 - and all the other cars after that.
	There was a connection at Trafford and Ed mentioned that 
unconfirmed rumors got a PCC a considerable distance up West Penn towards 
but not into Greensburg!

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