[PRCo] Re: 1954.02.07

Edward H. Lybarger trams at adelphia.net
Sun Mar 21 12:32:56 EST 2004


The car number was 4393.

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Holland
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:00 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] 1954.02.07


Jim Holland wrote:

>             Also in the archives is extensive quotation of the PERC //
>PRMA // PTM article(s) of that first trip to the museum with M1, WP-832,
>and 3756.     *Later*  on that day  (1954.02.07)  a  *speeded--up*
>Double-End car was sent to County Home Siding to pick up the railfans
>and return them to Pgh.     The car number was listed in those articles
>but not able to put my finger on it at the moment.     Would have been
>nice if tht car could have been saved  --  or if 4398 had made that
>trip  --  just for sake of nostalgia.
>
>Jim Holland
>
Good Morning!


	Of course I know exactly where is this information!     I cut page-10 out
of the Sept.--Oct--1996  Trolley__Fare and put it in my
Washington__Interurban  photo album.

	The DE Low-Floor car which took the fans back after delivering the first
3-PERC cars was 4393!


	The following information is for the move of the PERC Museum cars from
Ingram to County Home:::::::

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1954.02.07	M-1	PRCo	Move museum cars Ingram to County Home Museum site near
Arden.  4393 used for return trip to Pittsburgh.  (Washington Interurban
truncated at Drake 1953.08.29.)

1954.02.07	3756	PRCo	Move museum cars Ingram to County Home Museum site near
Arden.  4393 used for return trip to Pittsburgh.  (Washington Interurban
truncated at Drake 1953.08.29.)

1954.02.07	832	PRCo	Move museum cars Ingram to County Home Museum site near
Arden.  4393 used for return trip to Pittsburgh.  (Washington Interurban
truncated at Drake 1953.08.29.)

1954.02.07	4393	PRCo	Move museum cars Ingram to County Home Museum site near
Arden.  4393 used for return trip to Pittsburgh.  (Washington Interurban
truncated at Drake 1953.08.29.)

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	This information describes a couple PERC fantrips which may explain the
photo on the 10-line spotted by Matt::

1955.06.12	4398	PRCo	Monongahela Incline, 57, 32, 36, 35, 38A, 38, 42, 40,
48, 49, 22, 4, 5, 21, 8, 10, 15, 13, 6, 18.

	There is a picture of 4398 at the Emsworth loop from the above fantrip on
the back of  Trolley__Fare  March--April--2002.


1960.09.10p	4398	PRCo	Glenwood to Tunnel for NMRA fantrip.

1960.09.10p	3487	PRCo	Glenwood to Tunnel for NMRA fantrip.

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	Another charter more than a year before the end of Washington service  --
almost exactly 11-months before the end of Charleroi::

1952.07.27	3761	PRCo	Joint Trip with Akron, OH, RR Club.  Washington Shannon
Charleroi, Roscoe, Washington; regular service car 4387 Black Diamond to
Donora.

1952.07.27	3769	PRCo	Joint Trip with Akron, OH, RR Club.  Washington Shannon
Charleroi, Roscoe, Washington; regular service car 4387 Black Diamond to
Donora.

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1950.06.11	3712	PRCo	Washington.

1950.06.11	4354	PRCo	North Washington, Jefferson/Maiden, East/West.

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	Moving WP-832 from Charleroi to Ingram:::::::

1953.05.10	4921	PRCo	Charleroi to Ingram to store West Penn 832!

1953.05.10	832	PRCo	Charleroi to Ingram to store West Penn 832!

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1956.09.09	5432	PRCo	Last low-floor car: 34/31, 7, 36, 50, 55, 56, 58, 62,
64, 68, 87, 30.




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Jim

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