[PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs

[Boris Cefer]

I think Fred III's roster does not show any 1600s retired in 1969. Only
1967, 71, 72 and 73.

Yes, the PRCo orphans were scrapped in 1967.

B

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From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs


> I believe the cars rejected by PAT weren't scrapped until the settlement
> with Pittsburgh Railways was finalized in what, 1967?
>
> I do know PAT scrapped the 1600s as they were damaged or suffered severe
> mechanical failures between 1964 and 1972, but I thought a group of
> Westinghouse 1600s were retired in 1969 or so and were scrapped along with
> the General Electric 1700s.
>
> K.
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> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:33 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs
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> > No 16s in 1969. That was scrapping of all remaining GE 17s. The first
> > reduction of WE 16s took place in 1964 when PAT did not take them over.
> > Then
> > some cars in the following years, almost each year several cars.
> >
> > B
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> > From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:17 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
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