Johnstown PCC Scans & a Pittsburgh Fantasy

[Derrick J Brashear]

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From: "Vigrass, Bill" <billvigrass at hillintl.com>
Subject: RE: Johnstown PCC Scans & a Pittsburgh Fantasy
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 12:46:42 -0400

But the Castle Shannon Coal Co. railroad was 40 inch gauge, really odd,
even in the 19th Century.   See Hilton's book, NG RRs in America.  Bill
V.

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> From: 	Jim Holland[SMTP:pghpcc at pacbell.net]
> Reply To: 	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: 	Saturday, July 17, 1999 2:34 AM
> To: 	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: 	Re: Johnstown PCC Scans & a Pittsburgh Fantasy
> 
> 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?" :-)
> 
> 	Do you remember a time in the 80s (were you shaving yet, Ken?!) 
> when they considered purchasing / leasing some Boston cars?  If they 
> purchased the Dallas DE cars from Bean Town, they wouldn't have to put
> 
> those ({[ooogly]}) front poles on three of their own!  Don't remember
> the 
> details.  Both Johnstown and DC were long gone before ({[PAT]}),
> weren't 
> they?
> 	Los Angeles went out in 1963 and since Overbrook was once a 
> narrow gauge railroad with some of that rail supposedly remaining in 
> 1964, they could have used the extremely well maintained LA air-cars;
> the 
> all-electrics would be too wide!  You did say "What if?" - didn't 
> you???????
> 	Bombardier, which built the superb LRVs for Portland, OR,
> initial 
> order was contemplating building a car using "updated PCC
> technology!!!" 
>  Now here is a "What IF?" that you can run with!
> 	Oorrrrr, there might be some good, used, articulated, PCCs from 
> Europe or Russia that might have filled the bill as well!  These would
> 
> probably be *more skinnier* than the Pgh. PCCs and would fit in very 
> nicely.
> 	Orrrrr, Pgh. could have purchased / leased the cars sitting 
> around in El Paso and renumbered one #100 - they were almost as old!
> 
> -- 
> James B. Holland
>        PITTSBURGH RAILWAYS COMPANY (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of
> 1953
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