[PRCo] Re: Memories

[James B. Holland]

> Fred Schneider wrote:
>
>> .......Pittsburgh Railways in the era of high floor cars (even some 
>> 3400s and 3500s were still running), trailers, gazillions of 
>> low-speed low floor cars.       To him a car in orange paint was 
>> unusual; most of the fleet would have been maroon.
>

About 1/3rd of the 34s were scrapped in the late 1920s with the balance 
scrapped in the early 1930s.       Not unusual for a car to sit out of 
service for a year or two before final scrapping.

The bulk of the 35s were scrapped in the early 1930s.

The 36s were scrapped mid to late 1920s.

The 4000s were scrapped mid to late 1930s.

The bulk of the 4100s were scrapped in 1940.

> Jim__Holland wrote:
>
> Probably Plenty of Orange Cars. 3750s arrived in Orange in 1925; so 
> did a number of the 5000--5549 series, probably a majority of same.   
>     And in one of the calendars Ed mentions that cars were repainted 
> every several years back then.       So I would wager there were Not A 
> Few Yellow-Orange cars in the latter 1920s.



Jim__Holland