[PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs

[John Swindler]

Hamley wrote a series in Trolley Fare about 5-7 years ago that traced the 
demise of all Pgh. PCC cars.

John



>From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Three Reliable Transit Vehicle Designs
>Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:55:29 -0700
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>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
>
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> >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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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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
> >
> >
> >> 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.
> >> ----- 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
> >> >
> >> > ----- 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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