[PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

To Fred Bruhn, who expressed the interest first, and to all the  
others interested in West Penn:

Here is that Octobert 29, 1931 West Penn carbarn assignment list, by  
division:

CONNELLSVILLE:   1 (locomotive), 4 (sweeper), 218, 224, 500, 501,  
504, 512, 545, 546, 547, 601, 602, 607 (for scrap), 608, 609,  
610-612, 702-706, 709, 713, 714, 724, 727-730, 733, 735, 736, 738,  
739, 800 (for scrap)
Some of the 700s may have been in the shop at the time for conversion  
for one-man operation [732 and 735 were listed separately and that  
may or may not imply something].   Car 224 had been a Kittanning car  
and we have pictures of it with a huge freight door cut in the  
side ... this implies that it came back before the end of Kittanning  
operations.   Connellsville had room to store idle equipment and we  
can speculate that 607-609 were idle and we know from the parenthesis  
that 800 was not going to run again.   The mainline still required  
two-man cars, and they would logically have been those that were  
later stored out of service (701-706, 716-720).

OAKFORD PARK:   258, 259, 261, 262, 400-402, 404-406, 408.   This  
division was used only for dead storage.

LATROBE:   204, 603-606 and sweeper 2.   This suggests that possibily  
(and Ed and I had this discussion has light, arriving at no  
conclusion), that 204 may not have been the car at Apollo that  
escaped the flood, and that it was never there for the flood.

GREENSBURG:  207-217,  Sweeper 3, 503, 509, 538, 544, 723, 725, 726,  
731, 734.

IRON BRIDGE:  260, 310, 311,  403, 407, 409.   Iron Bridge was used  
only to store unneeded equipment.

UNIONTOWN:   sweeper 1, 505, 541, 707, 708, 710-712, 715-722, 737.

CHRISTY PARK (McKEESPORT):  286-296, 298-299, 302-305, sweeper 5.  
502, 507, 508, 513.

HAHNTOWN:  300, 301, 308, 309, 313, 315, 316   (This was a former  
McKeesport and Irwin property used for dead equipment storage.)

IRWIN:   306, 307, 297.   (My suspicion, which was relayed to Ed last  
night, was that 297 was based here for Trafford - Irwin - McKeesport  
service and it might have been the only active car in the barn.   I  
felt that 306 and 307 were here because they were in dead storage and  
wouldn't fit anywhere else.   Remember that the abandonment of the  
Scott Haven line released some single-truck cars and closed another  
barn about a year earlier.)

PITTSBURGH FREIGHT STATION:   539, 540, 542, 543, 548, 549

TARENTUM:  sweeper 6, 509, 250, 251, 831-842.

HARMARVILLE:  254-257.   This was an Allegheny Valley Division  
storage barn located just up river from Hulton Bridge (across from  
Oakmont).   At this time it is apparent that there were cars here  
they could retrieve if they needed them.  Big word was IF.   It  
wasn't too many more years before the division schedules were reduced  
from 15 minutes to 30 minutes on the north and from 30 minutes to  
hourly on the south end.  Notice that the 250-262 group were the 1906  
amd 1908 AV cars ... two were left in Tarentum as "active" spares and  
those two were photographed in Connellsville in 1937 after the AV  
Division closed.  The others in 1931 were here or packed into Oakford  
Park or Iron Bridge.  One appears to have bit the dust.

KITTANNING:  510, sweeper 7, 219-223.

LEECHBURG:   511, 200, 201, 203.


Now:  Notice how the need for 200s and, 600s disappeared with the  
abandonment of the Valley Route, Leechburg-Apollo, Kittanning-Ford  
City, McKeesport, and the Tarrs shuttle in the next five years?    
They were already in the process of cutting up the 400s.