[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[trams at adelphia.net]

Fred has neglected to provide the source for this information...I discovered it in material given to the museum during the summer by Mac and Jon McGrew, and put it in the form of a database which was mailed to Fred soon after.  The original is in Mac's handwriting and not a direct company document...but Mac copied it from something more or less official, I'm certain. 

Ed

---- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote: 
> 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.
> 
> 
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