PRCo Roster -- PCC Cars -- and Udders

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Charles Brown wrote:

> but I would like to know more about the cars that
> came before the PCC's (there were some, weren't there???).

	Yes - there were udder streetcars that came before the PCCs.  I 
have an 80+ page roster (on standard 8.5X11paper, mostly double column) 
which lists each car and the date it arrived on PRCo property And / or the 
date it was put into service anD the date of its disposition AnD some notes 
about the type of disposition AND any conversions which took place!
	But it certainly doesn't have all the different paint schemes 
available - this will definitely drive Ed banananananananas!  Adver-teasing 
started mostly with the 1400 series cars during WW2 so to keep track of all 
this would be a real chore!  And the problem really compounds with the 
advent of PAT and its rebirth by Fed directive and the myriad of paint 
schemes that followed!
	Several books, which you might have, are available thru PTM and are 
published by them:::::::

	1--  Streetcars in the Golden Triangle, 1859-1985
	2--  Pittsburgh Trolley Pictorial
	3--  Pittsburgh Double-Deck Cars
	4--  Pittsburgh's Experimental 6000's

	These books and pamphlets (the latter 2) are mostly pictures of the 
equipment but have extremely pertinent captions.  The latter two contain 
substantial text describing the cars in addition to HO scale car plans.  
They should give you a good feel for the equipment that PRCo had.  PRCo had 
between 1,000 and 1,100 of the standard low-floor design, both single and 
double end as well as trailers.
	Another book, *The Street Railways of Pittsburgh, 1859-1967* by Tom 
Parkinson is published jointly by the Light Railway Transport League of 
Britan and the PTM.  This does have a roster of equipment by car series and 
the year of purchase and disposition.

James B. Holland
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        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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