[PRCo] Re: PRCo trailers

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!



> Fred Schneider wrote:

> The 4800s and 4900s were all built with K-43 control
> to enable them to pull low-floor trailers rebuilt with
> two motors ... a six motor train.    I have no idea to
> what extent they were used that way but trainers were
> used all over the city.



	Photo on bottom of pg.11 of  *Streetcars In The Golden
Triangle*  has this photo caption:::::::


"""A two-car train bound for Knoxville loads on Wood Street at
Fifth Avenue,.......    Seven years later, the last two-car
trains operated in Pittsburgh in 1937.    Wood Street was one-way
by then, but still had two tracks."""



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    with the similar tantalisation that something,
        sometime, somehow, will turn up. 
            George Courtauld

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James B. Holland

• Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation....... 
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