[PRCo] Re: PRC 6000

[Jim Holland]

> Bob Rathke wrote:

> Page 14 in Tom Parkinson's booklet, "The Street Railways of Pittsburgh,
> 1859-1967," states that, "(PRC car) 6000 survived to become a roadside
> cafe near Allison Park, Pa."  Is this the same structure that is now the
> beer distributorship?

	The PRMA publication  --  *Pittsburgh's Experimental 6000's*  (with HO
scale plans)  --  has a photo on the back page of 6000 herself converted
to a "._._.diner near Allison Park, Pa."

	From the test of this publication:::::::

	".......but the body of 6000 was saved from the torch and shipped to a
site north of Allison Park, a suburb of Pittsburgh, where it was
converted into a roadside diner.  6000 is still there [date of
publication - September--1962], looking from the outside very much as it
did in operation, except for a rebuilt windshield."
	"Be's Diner, as it is now known (Fred Biessinger, proprietor), is
located one mile north of Allison Park on Pennsylvania Route 8, and 'Be'
is always glad to show visitors around the old car.  The interior has
been modernized, and fluorescent lights have replaced the old dome lamp
fixtures, but many of the details mentioned in this booklet can still be
seen in the flesh in this last vestige of a brilliant, but short-lived
class of Pittsburgh trolleys."

-- 
James B. Holland
        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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