Work Equipment

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	I was simply looking for scrapping dates and should have caught that
one was missing for M210.  Yes, it was a conversion of 4306 - and a note
says that "New carbody constructed."  It was converted to M210 the Third
in 1940.

> Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

> WHERE IS M210, THE LINE CAR BUILT IN 1940 PARTLY FROM A 4300 (I THINK --06).

> > Jim Holland wrote:

> >         Using an outside system, I went in to look at my email.  PBI is
> > absolutely pathetic - will be changing ISP sometime this year.
> >         At any rate, I noticed your two letters concerning the work equipment,
> > one direct to me.  I looked at my copies and they are probably just as
> > bad as yours - I have to guess at the total number of work equipment
> > which looks like 511.  Many of the scribbled entries cannot be read.
> >         I quickly scanned thru the list and the following cars were the only
> > work equipment 1950 and forward, with a fair number scrapped in the
> > 1950s; only 35 work cars in this list out of a total of 511 work cars:::

> > M018    McGuire Sweeper
> > M024    McGuire Sweeper
> > M026    McGuire Sweeper
> > M028    McGuire Sweeper
> > M036    McGuire Sweeper
> > M037    McGuire Sweeper
> > M050    McGuire Sweeper
> > M051    McGuire Sweeper
> > M052    McGuire Sweeper
> > M053    McGuire Sweeper
> > M054    McGuire Sweeper
> > M055    McGuire Sweeper
> > M056    McGuire Sweeper
> > M127    Wreck
> > M130    Wreck
> > M132    Wreck
> > M133    Traffic Paint
> > M196    Tow Car
> > M200    Tow Car
> > M212    Tower Car
> > M282    Crane Car
> > M401    Flat
> > M450    Snow Scraper
> > M453    Snow Scraper
> > M454 Snow Scraper
> > M456 Snow Scraper
> > M457 Snow Scraper
> > M458 Snow Scraper
> > M541    Loco for rail car
> > M546    Rail Grinder
> > M552    Dump
> > M555    Dump
> > M701    Rail Car
> > F8      Freight / Snow Plow
> > F9      Freight / Snow Plow

> >         I did not include M1276 since I am only interested in equipment up to
> > 1950 and this one was converted later.  Additionally, 5432 was converted
> > to a Traffic and Paint Car in the mid-1950s after M133 was disposed of.
> >         And many work cars were disposed of very early in their careers.  Would
> > take some work but it would be interesting to see how many work cars
> > were actually in service in any one-year period.

> > James B. Holland
> >
> >         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
> >     To e-mail privately, please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
> > N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
    To e-mail privately, please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/