[PRCo] Re: PRCo's Low-Floor Color Scheme

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

Tom:	Your ISP is acting up again - recent email to you about 'heater
problems being forwarded to appropriate people' was returned to me as a
Failed Action.

.......And, thank you for the clarification below  --  WW2 equipment
demands disintegrated the segregation of equipment according to lines!

> tsquare wrote:

> From my post of 4/26, I thought it was clear that I
> was discussing pre-WW2 -- I believe that most of the
> photos to which you are referring are post-WW2.

> HAVING LIVED IN CHARLEROI FROM 1929 T0 1935 AND
> HAVING SPENT TWO COMPLETE SUMMERS THERE IN 1939
> AND 1940, I HAVE TO TELL YOU THAT I NEVER SAW A 3700
> ON THE CHARLEROI LINE -- NOR DID I EVER SEE A 3800
> IN WASHINGTON SERVICE.   OTHER THAN THE US&S PROMO
> PIC OF A 3800 AT THOMPSONVILLE (APPARENTLT TAKEN
> IN 1928 AND WITH PRCo POSSIBLY SHOWCASING THE
> THEN-NEW 3800'S) AND SOME POST-WW2 PHOTOS MANY OF
> WHICH WERE TAKEN ON FAN-TRIPS, I HAVE NO EVIDENCE
> TO THE CONTRARY.   I STAND BY MY STATEMENTS --
> CHECK THE DATES ON CAR ASSIGNMENTS OUT OF SHANNON
> AND TUNNEL -- ALTHOUGH BOTH SERIES MAY HAVE HAD
> SOME CARS ASSIGNED THERE, PRCo STILL COULD HAVE
> RESTRICTED THEIR USAGE TO SPECIFIC LINES.

> Also, in an off-list reply to FWS3, I had also acknowledged that
> assignments were mixed after WW2 due to car availability and the intro
> of the 1600's

> All of this reminds me of the old vaudeville nut,
> "Vas yew der, Charlie?"

> TOM

>>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Fred Schneider wrote:

>>> Also no difference in car assignments.   There is a strong
>>> conviction of current day railfans that the 3800s were
>>> restricted to Charleroi and the 3700s to Washington but
>>> this simply isn't true.  Company records show they
>>> mixed them up.  Available photos also show both groups
>>> ran on both lines in scheduled service.

>> Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>> Indeed, I saw several of these photos with my own eyes yesterday, in
>> locations easily recognizable as being on the Washington or Charleroi line
>> (well, actually, do you consider Roscoe to be on the Charleroi line, or
>> Charleroi to be on the Roscoe line? ;-)

>> So, I'll vouch for this.

>> -D

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