[PRCo] PRC Roster

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Ed Lybarger pointed out to me that the "78 page Pittsburgh roster" may
contain some mistakes and that the two people who copied the material
out of company files will not be happy if it is released.  In deference
to their wishes, I will not be a party to xeroxing the principal list. 
So much for a mass xerox job.  

Naturally, there will be errors.  People being paid to keep records
certainly didn't do any better job than amateurs doing it for fun.  I've
found a number of discrepancies.  The most common is the builder of
low-floor cars ... many were ordered from Standard Steel in nearby
Butler but were actually built by another Pullman subsidiary
(Osgood-Bradley) in Massachusetts.  I've found other discrepancies in
manufacturers, years, controls, motors, trucks, weights.  

I have been typing a generalized roster for you fellows ... numbers,
builder, year built, car type, general information on apparatus and
changes thereto, generalized scrap dates (not specific by car but often
first, last, and majority).  The data come from a variety of sources,
none of which have proven accuracy.  I'm up to the 4700s now.  Maybe I
can finish it this week.  It will be put on like in Microsoft Word when
finished. Derrick can change it to other formats if he wishes.  

The roster will contain errors and should not be deemed accurate for
publication.  I might have even inserted a deliberate error to catch
someone passing it around?  

(In case no one understands this latter concept, information can not be
copyright protected but original work, style, etc. can be protected. 
For that reason many cartographers put insignificant mistakes in their
maps in order to prove in court that someone ripped them off.)