[PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs

[Ken & Tracie]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:02 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs


> It served its purchaser for 19 years.   Might have been on the
> streets for 23 years.   I'v e seen the left gray model in service for
> over 25 years.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't the 1601-1674 Westinghouse cars reduced 
considerably in two purges, 1969 and 1972? The ones surviving after that 
(twenty or so) were part of the Early Action rebuilding and survived into 
the mid 1980s.

I remember passing a convoy of retired PAT "fishbowls" heading west on the 
Ohio Turnpike. This was on the way home after I visited Pittsburgh during 
1984. I believe they were mid 1960s vintage and still painted in "PAT gray." 
I never found out where they were heading or who purchased them. The posted 
speed limit was 55 mph and they were keeping up with traffic pretty well and 
displayed no noticeable exhaust smoke, so they seemed to be in good 
mechanical condition.

K.