[PRCo] Re: West Penn 706 Question

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Fred Schneider wrote:

> noteworthy things is that cars 700-706 had a narrower center door, which might
> have accommodated more seats.  One more point, Ed Lybarger's research has
> disclosed that some of the two-man 700s were used during World War II to haul
> military inductees from Fayette County up to the Pennsy station in Greensburg,
> implying that they were really having a car shortage.

Coming back to this: presumably inductees are prepaid, so it's secretly a 
one-man car anyway for this trip. Or, not so secretly. So, given that you 
don't want to use these cars generally, why not knock off a few more miles 
on them for a trip where you know you won't need a conductor?

-D