[PRCo] Re: Memories

[Fred Schneider]

Before this gets too deep, remember dad came there first when they were 
all maroon; he moved there during the painting process.
Another thing that would have been familiar to my dad would have been 
low-floor cars with the two words FRONT ENTRANCE painted on the dasher 
panel next to the front doors.  That inscription was applied as cars 
were converted to one-man operation in the late 1920s.  I have a print 
of 4714 in fresh paint in 1935 which the photographer, Robert H. Brown, 
claimed was the first car  repainted without the one-man inscription.  
By then, everybody understood that you got on the front doors of 
Pittsburgh streetcars.

At that time Philadelphia had huge numbers of two-man cars.  So did 
Washington, Chicago, Cleveland, Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, 
New Orleans and many other large cities. 

And about a month ago I spent a morning in New Orleans and realized just 
how much slower the new Canal line is than the older service which had 
two-man cars.  I suspect that putting an extra man on those cars in the 
rush hour to answer questions and show people how to feed the farebox 
would be equivalent to buying another 15 cars.   The two-man cars 
certainly were faster loading. 
James B. Holland wrote:

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>>>.......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.
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>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.
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>The bulk of the 35s were scrapped in the early 1930s.
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>The 36s were scrapped mid to late 1920s.
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>The 4000s were scrapped mid to late 1930s.
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>The bulk of the 4100s were scrapped in 1940.
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>>Jim__Holland wrote:
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>>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.
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