[PRCo] Re: 3750s as MU & Fair Haven --- [WAS:: PCC MultipleUnits]

[Jim Holland]

Here Fred  *alludes*  to the basing of 3750s.   Still can't find original
info.

Photo caption for lower photo, back cover of 
*Pittsburgh--Trolley--Pictorial:*

	"PRCo operated a total of 278 multiple-unit passenger cars.   Of these 243
were low-floor city cars  (5000--5159,  5200--5282).  This is believed to
be the inaugural run of MU operation on route 82-Lincoln.   Other routes to
be operated MU were 37-Shannon and 88-Frankstown; also Charleroi with 3700
and 3750 series inteurbans in their earlier days."

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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 21:05:09 -0400

> "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:

> Yes.   The 3750s, 5000s, 5100s, and 5200s were all MU cars.  That said,
> my question was, do we have any evidence that the 3750s were ever
> operated in trains?  To the best of my knowledge, the 3750s were always
> based at Tunnel.  I thought they served very briefly in interurban
> service ... perhaps only two years until the 3800s came on line, and
> thereafter were assigned to Shannon or Library trippers and to
> Sewickley.  I was not aware of any MU assignments on any of those
> lines.

> Would the company have bought MU cars and never used them as such?  Why
> not.  Nearly half of all corporate decisions are faulty.  Lancaster,
> Pennsylvania, for example, had eight MU cars for service to Coatesville
> but they never ran in trains.

> Now was the picture in the supermarket clearly 3750s?  Were they in
> scheduled service?  And was the picture taken at an identifiable
> location on the interurban line?

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