[PRCo] Pittsburgh 1200 models

[Fred Schneider]

For those buying a 1200 Pittsburgh Model from Jim Holland, here is a  
carbarn assignment list for
that series circa January 1941:

1200-1211 and 1233-1240   Tunnel
    38 MT LEBANON
    +39 BROOKLINE
    +40 MT WASHINGTON
    +42 DORMONT
    +46 BROWNSVILLE

1212-1220 Herron Hill
     +85 BEDFORD
     (22 did not get PCCs until 1400s)

1221-1232 and 1245-1274 Homewood
     +60 E. LBTY - 62ND ST,
     +87  ARDMORE
     88  FRANKSTOWN

1241-1244 and 1279-1299  Ingram
     +26 WEST PARK
     +31 CRAFTON-INGRAM
     +34 SHERIDAN-INGRAM

1275-1278 Keating
     +8 PERRYSVILLE
     10 WEST VIEW
     15 BELLEVUE-WEST VIEW

The plus (+) sign is indicative of a route added when the 1200s were  
delivered to the carbarn.  The other routes listed already had PCCs  
as a result of the deliveries of 1000 or 1100 series cars.   The  
names shown are not necessarily indicitive of the exact spelling of  
the front and side destination signs at the time the 1200s were first  
placed in service but it is a reasonably complete list of how to have  
your 1200 painted by Leonid.

There are, in my mind, two important anomalies here.  One is that  
everyone has told me the brakes on the 1200s were horrible yet one of  
the worst grades on the system was one block on route 85 Bedford and  
yet that line got PCC cars of the 1200 series in 1940.    
Interestingly, I also saw No. 1600 running on that line in 1953 and  
it was a drum brake car.    The other curious situation is that  
Ingram was, in 1940, a mixed GE and Westinghouse barn.