[PRCo] Re: PRCo___MU--Cars

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> Fred Schneider wrote:

> I don't deny that PRC operated such services but they did
> not appear in the route cards.  The official record shows:
.......snip:)

> I would be much more willing to accept a record completed
> at the time of operation [the route cards that PRC's
> transportation department maintained] than a fan magazine
> published in 1951 with an editor who was born in the
> late 1920s in New York and a Pittsburgh reporter who
> didn't come to Pittsburgh until the 1940s.

	Understood, Fred.

	Quoting again (from  *ERA--Headlights*  January--1951:)

	""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:    HEADLIGHTS  is indebted to ERA members
Charles Dengler and John Baxter for photos or data and to Mr.
Harry Bartley, President of the Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club,
for additional data.""

	While an employee of PRCo, I still would  Not  expect John
Baxter to  *know*  it all, but it does lend more credibility to
the article.

	Seems we shall Not know for Sure.

	I like to  *White--Flag*  information like this   ---  
interesting info.,  reasonably reliable sources,  but would like
more evidence to support the claim.    Problem is, in the absence
of more information it is easy to forget that such information is
only  *White--Flagged*  and then believe it to be [gospel!]

QUESTION::	Do you see anything in the  Car//Route  cards to
indicate the 3750s might have been used in Trafford service??   
This was indicated in the same article.
	Makes sense on the surface   ---   Trafford similar to Neville
Island with  single-track  side-of-the-road  prw and the 
*blind-side*  door would help in both situations.

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James B. Holland

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