[PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs

[Ken & Tracie]

Maybe I was thinking of 1967...but I was thinking of a group of Westinghouse 
1600s besides any rejected by PAT and not the General Electric 1600 cars.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs


>I think Fred III's roster does not show any 1600s retired in 1969. Only
> 1967, 71, 72 and 73.
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> Yes, the PRCo orphans were scrapped in 1967.
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> B
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> From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:47 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs
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>> I believe the cars rejected by PAT weren't scrapped until the settlement
>> with Pittsburgh Railways was finalized in what, 1967?
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>> 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.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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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>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > 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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