[PRCo] Re: PRC roster updates

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, John Swindler wrote:

> With apologies to Derrick, this is intended primarily as additional data for 

It's on topic, why are you sorry?

And I'm impressed by John's work... anyhow,

> Dave Hamley and Ed Lybarger.  However, there might be a couple others 
> interested in PRC roster information.  The purpose is to provide information 
> on PRC cars which were known to exist, but for which no scrapping 
> information is available.  For the rest, let's just say that the delete key 
> is to upper right on the keyboard.

It wasn't at MIT yesterday. There was no delete key. I found this
disconcerting. Anyhow,

> As previously mentioned, Dave, PRC 1017 derailed and went over a 40 foot 
> embankment near Kennywood

Where is only a 40 foot embankment found near Kennywood? On either side of
the park it looks to be further down, basically to the level of the
railroad below. I assume there were no more details?

> By the way, where was the "West Penn Depot" in 1903?  No, it wasn't in 
> Fayette or Westmoreland Counties, because West Penn Railways didn't exist in 
> 1903.  It was in the City of Allegheny, and was "abandoned and razed and 
> space used for tracks of the Fort Wayne (PRR)."  (as part of Fort Wayne 
> grade separation)(and something else I never knew)

The PRR "Conemaugh Division" was the Western Pennsylvania Railroad
first...