Car stops

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

> 3.  I know someone out there is going to tell me that they have a picture of a
> Pittsburgh car under a white on black sign and I'm sure they do.  I do too.  But
> the car was not on PRC track.   Much of the trackage eastward from Duquesne to
> McKeesport, and on the loop that route 68 used in McKeesport was owned by West
> Penn Railways Company.  Both companies ran joint service from Duquesne into
> McKeesport into the 1920s ... to busy to look the date up tonight.  They

The "McKeesport's Trolleys" book from Ron Beal covers this, I'm
practically certain of it. I can check at some point if it matters

> 5.  So all you PCC types out there ... Holland included ... West Penn built and
> maintained track for PCC cars they never owned or operated!  And as a sidebar,
> in the abandonment petition for the McKeesport lines in 1938, West Penn actually
> included the cost of 13 PCC cars they felt they would need to buy to compete
> with Pittsburgh Railways in that market if they were to stay in business.  Can
> we imagine an orange and cream PCC with red doors and the West Penn triangular
> herald ... perhaps numbered 1000-1012?  (Couldn't use the 900s because they were
> in Wheeling.)

Maybe I'll paint one up, in my "copious spare time"

-D
-should stop using his computer, to give his eye a rest