[PRCo] Re: WP__Equipment__Assignments

[Fred Schneider]

Until other routes were abandoned.   Until all that was left was the  
mainline and Latrobe.

On Oct 29, 2005, at 6:13 AM, James B. Holland wrote:

> Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> Actually it was pretty much cast in stone until the very end when the
>> company switched around those cars that ran to replace those that  
>> wore
>> out. Before that, for example, the 730s were always mainline cars.
>>
>> The 712 you mentioned as a Latrobe car was earlier on a Brownsville
>> car. Depends on the year.
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>> On Oct 28, 2005, at 6:58 PM, Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:
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>>> I've tried to research this somewhat using photos mostly and it  
>>> seems
>>> there is "some" barn assignment, but I don't think it is cut in  
>>> stone.
>>>
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>>
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> Could you please give an approximate date for:::   """until the very
> end?"""       I would  *-guess-*  that this might be post WW2  --   
> then
> equipment wear out and line closings would see equipment shifted  
> around
> rather frequently!       If a general roster of Car Barn and Route
> Assignments exists for the decades before the end, it would be nice to
> have this if it isn't any trouble.
>
> 286-297 seemed to be used on the Irwin, Trafford, and Dickerson Run  
> lines.
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> Photo of 724 at Dickerson is in PRMA WP pub pg.23.
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> Jim__Holland
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> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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