Car Number Assignments

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

> Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> Tom's question reminded me to ask something I forgot to share with the list some
> time ago. Did Pittsburgh Railways ever engage in the practice of swapping car
> numbers within a series?

	Cars 1547 and 1505 are the classic case.
	First PCC 1547 sent to Twin Cities; 2nd PRCo PCC 1547 switched numbers
with 1505 to keep drum braked equipment together.
	ALL PRCo air cars 1564 and back were delivered with wheel tread brake
shoes; some of these from the 1200s forward were converted to
motor//shaft drums.  PRCo 1600 series only air cars built with drum
brakes.
	And PRCo switched numbers between 1259 and 1269 in October--1963,
reason unknown, possibly above, possibly to confuse ({[pat]})!!::-->>)) 
Gut guess ({[pat]}) had last laugh - they didn't take the 12s, did they?

	Four low floor trailers - A217, A242, A283, A284 converted to
4420--4423 in that order when motorized for independent operation! 
These low-floor trailers originally were double ended with center doors
only - A200--A249 with sliding doors, A250--A424 folding doors.
	When the 4-above were converted to independent control motor cars, they
initially operated strictly as center door cars - end doors cut in later
and sliding doors probably changed out to folding doors.  All of these
disposed of in March--April--1932.

	Possibly others - these come to mind immediately.

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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