[PRCo] Re: [Fwd: Pittsburgh's Pre-PCC Interurbans]

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Another factor had to be the company's financial condition...they had just
emerged from bankruptcy proceedings at a time when the Philadelphia Company
was being dismantled.  No more safety net, as it were.  They weren't doing
things that weren't absolutely necessary.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim
Holland
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:01 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] [Fwd: Pittsburgh's Pre-PCC Interurbans]



Greetings!!

	Very interesting thought, Ken!!

	Ed has said that they were rather well used by that time  --  but
what about the 1903--1906 W&C cars still around for work service??

	Probably the cost of conversion could not justify  *modernizing*
the workcar fleet!   And the handwriting was on the wall by this
time as well  --  trolleycars were on the way out!

	Those remaining Brill and St.-Louis pre-PCC interurbans were
officially retired in November of 1950 (that reprint from the ERA
of July--1952 details this and the photo caption of 3712 OB at
Wash-Jct states this fact.)

	Scrapping dates::

		3700 - 1952.03.28
		3701 - 1952.03.26
		3703 - 1951.10.19
		3705 - 1951.11.06
		3708 - 1952.03.06
		3710 - 1952.03.12
		3711 - 1952.02.22
		3712 - 1952.02.20
		3713 - 1952.02.11
		3714 - 1952.04.01

	Five of the above cars of this series disappeared before 1949 with
one in that year, one in 1946, 2-in 1943, and the first one to be
scrapped, 3706, on 1932.03.18

	Ten-3800s were scrapped in Feb--March 1952, 3-in 1951, 1-in 1949,
1-in 1948!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [PRCo] Pittsburgh's Pre-PCC Interurbans
Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2001 10:42:25 -0800
From: Kenneth Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>

Did PRwyCo give any thought to retaining some of their last pre-PCC
interurbans and converting them to work equipment? When were these
cars
scrapped? Ken J.

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