[PRCo] Re: 3-car fantrip from Pittsburgh to PRMA Washington

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

>> Bob Rathke wrote:

>> The detailed caption says that
>> 832 is on the bridge, followed by 4393 (your e-mail identidfies this car as
>> 3756).
 
> Jim Holland wrote:

>         .......AND  it is 3756,  NOT 4393 which car did not make the trip with
> 3756 and M1.   The 3-Museum cars made it under their own power to the
> Museum site at County Home siding  --  West--Penn--832,  PRCo--3756,
> PRCo--M1.   PRCo--4393  was sent down later in the day to pick up the
> crew and return them to Pgh.

BOB::	Didn't you mention that the trip was covered in the March--1954 
*ERA--Headlights?*

	Full page of coverage on pg.3 with 8--photos and the text continues
onto pg.8.   The last para--giraffe of the text reads, and I
quote:::::::

	"This last minute work at the museum site resulted in the return trip
being made (as usual) later than scheduled, but no one seemed to mind
(except the poor substation operator, who was sure we had gotten into
some kind of trouble and wanted to go home for dinner,) because the ride
back was a fast one on PRCo double-ender 4393, last such car used in
regular service, on Rt.-12-Evergreen on December 6.  This car was
brought out of storage at Keating car house for the purpose and had
followed the other cars out from Pittsburgh by several hours in order to
reduce the demand for power at the outer end of the line."

	This is the conclusive evidence that 4393 did not make the trip with
the 3--Museum cars.

	The Thompsonville substation had been energized for this particular day
and move and was about 11--miles from County Home with broken rail bonds
etc.

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
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    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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