[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh 1200 models

[Fred Schneider]

Yes your royal offended highness.   The Oliver Miller Library of the  
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum of Washington Pennsylvania, United States  
of America.
<BG>

On Apr 2, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I notice that Fred again has "forgotten" who gave him the  
> assignment list
> that he embellished.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2006 3:18 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Pittsburgh 1200 models
>
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> For those buying a 1200 Pittsburgh Model from Jim Holland, here is a
> carbarn assignment list for
> that series circa January 1941:
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> 1200-1211 and 1233-1240   Tunnel
>     38 MT LEBANON
>     +39 BROOKLINE
>     +40 MT WASHINGTON
>     +42 DORMONT
>     +46 BROWNSVILLE
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> 1212-1220 Herron Hill
>      +85 BEDFORD
>      (22 did not get PCCs until 1400s)
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> 1221-1232 and 1245-1274 Homewood
>      +60 E. LBTY - 62ND ST,
>      +87  ARDMORE
>      88  FRANKSTOWN
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> 1241-1244 and 1279-1299  Ingram
>      +26 WEST PARK
>      +31 CRAFTON-INGRAM
>      +34 SHERIDAN-INGRAM
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> 1275-1278 Keating
>      +8 PERRYSVILLE
>      10 WEST VIEW
>      15 BELLEVUE-WEST VIEW
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> 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.
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