[PRCo] Re: High Floor Work Cars

[Fred Schneider]

I've got to make a correction.  The last 3600 was destroyed in 1928.
Most of them went after the 3750s arrived.

Jim Holland wrote:

> Good Morning!
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> > Fred Schneider wrote:
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> > This does not answer how many earlier high floor cars
> > were converted ... because every earlier passenger car
> > was "high floor" by comparison to a 4200.  Some lasted
> > very briefly, for example one of the Kuhlman 3600s
> > that escaped the funeral pyre in 1928 to become a tow
> > car, only to be scrapped four years later.
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>         Would be interested in details on these cars  --  my notes do
> not list any conversions to work cars for 3600s.    It lists All
> as being burned for scrap in 1928 or earlier at Castle Shannon,
> West Park (3601 and 3607,) and Homewood (3615.)    And 3615 was
> the first to be scrapped on 1925.05.11 with 3619 the second on
> 1925.12.14.
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> Jim
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