[PRCo] Re: ---4200s--&--4000s---4100s

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Sun Aug 26 22:03:26 EDT 2001


Good Morning!!

	Should have qualified the following  --  the only  4200--4249  series
still operating into 1950;  all the cars in the 4250--4299 series were
scrapped by 1942 at the very latest.

> Jim Holland wrote:

> I find the following 4200s still in service into the 1950s::

> 4200  --  Leased to Beaver 1915.12.01, returned 6-months later;
> 4202;  4203;  4204;  4207  --  often Donora or Little Washington;
> 4208  --  often Donora or Little Washington;  4214;  4219;  4221;
> 4223;  4234;  4239;  4245;  4248;  *Possibly*  4209 and 4211.

	Here are the  4000--4079  and  4100--4149  cars remaining into the
1950s and possibly much later and their new numbers when converted to
work service:::::::

4016	M450  --  Convert (CV) Snow Scraper 11--1940
4030	M195  --  CV Tow Car 11--1940
4039	M451  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940

4101	M453  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940
4107	M452  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940  NOTE:::
		Orig. 4100 scrapped 1940.09.26.  Orig 4107 then
		renumbered to 4100; CV to M452 1-month later.
4115	M454  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940
4116	M455  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940
4126	M456  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940
4128	M457  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940
4130	M196  --  CV Tow Car 12--1940
4131	M197  --  CV Tow Car 12--1940
4140	M458  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940
4145	M459  --  CV Snow Scraper 11--1940

	Cars 4124 and 4133 were damaged in a fire at Manchester; they were both
sold to Copperweld Steel Co., possibly for scrap  --  no date given.

	The rest of the 40s and 41s were scrapped by 1940 at the latest!!

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James B. Holland

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