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

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Yes, being a former government type, I covered my ass.  I said I didn't
know if they were always there.  There may have been 3750s at Charleroi
at some point for all I knew.  Remember too that Castle Shannon was an
interurban barn, they may have been there between 1926 and 1932.  But
they eventually settled down to Tunnel.

And the picture of the so-called inaugural run on 82 Lincoln in the
sepia book by PTM (PRMA) was no where near route 82.  The picture was
taken on Forbes at Braddock looking west toward Frick Park.  Tom
Phillips thought his uncle, once a PRC treasurer, was one of the people
in that picture.  Look at your PERC map of Pittsburgh and you will find
no point with that track configuration that matches any landscape on
route 82.  I drove all over Pittsburgh one Sunday trying to prove it was
on 82, then to look at all similar junctions until I found the spot.

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> 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
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