[PRCo] Re: PRC work cars

[Fred Schneider]

If memory serves M-212 was the interurban line car and M-210 worked all the other
private right-of-way in the system.  Therefore it is pretty obvious that M-212
wasn't needed after the wires came down on the interurbans.  I'm actually
surprised that M212 lasted into 1955.

I was told that M701 was retired because someone loaded it with salt and the salt
badly damaged it.  That may have been heresay.  I last saw it at Tunnel in 1956.

My only picture of M282 was taken at Millvale in 1955.  At that time the Millvale
division was a bus garage (amusing isn't it that they got rid of the trolleys on
routes 2 and 3 because it would be impacted by the revised highway route 28,
which wasn't built for many years later.  But the railways company built a new
bus garage on the car house site ... it is gone now because the highway goes
through it.  But in 1955 the tracks and wires were still intact on East Ohio
Street from the caryard to downtown because the rail yard was at Millvale.
M7y01, M282 and M283 were assigned at Millvale at that time.  Sometime thereafter
the rail yard was moved to Glenwood (I thought it was there in 1958 but I could
be mistaken), and then to Palm Garden.  There was a separate rail and materials
yard in East Liberty in the teens and maybe twenties but I have no idea if it
moved directly from there to Millvaler.  EHL might know.  In either case, the
rule in those days was to keep it close to a railroad because that is how
materials were delivered.



Jim Holland wrote:

> Good Morning!
>
> > SaturnV at webtv.net wrote:
>
> > Greasings:
>
> > I believe both M701 and M212 were lost to fires somewhere around
> > 1954-1955. There may be someone on the list who may have more specifics
> > on the demise of these two cars.
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