Car number assignment

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

> Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

> At the risk of being flogged by our west coast member,

	Charles wouldn't do anything like that - don't know about Ken!  Guess
it is actually the quiet ones that you have to watch out for  SO  IT 
MUST  BE  *DON--GALT!!**

> Shaker Heights purchased 10 ex St. Louis Public Service
> cars in 1959 and numbered them 40 -49.  Then
> some years later, they renumbered 40 to 50 to keep the PCC's in order
> from 41 on into whereever they stopped in the 90's.

	But why not just start the next group at 50?

	And some systems started a series with *1*  --  1001, 1101  --  whereas
the *1st* PRCo car in a series was a *Zero*  --  1000, 1100, 3700, 3800,
3750 etc!

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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