[PRCo] Re: B-3 truck development

[Fred Schneider]

The largest single source of photos was Charlie Dengler.   As I  
stated before, they were all accidentally sold by Bob Brown's widow  
because Brownie neglected to refile them.   Therefore they are not in  
the library.

Sadly I borrowed all the strange stuff to print ... the odd PCC  
trucks, those Jones cars with VA control, etc., etc., etc.   And  
those negative envelopes were never filed back with the rest of the  
negatives.   And if Dengler had any additional negatives or prints,  
he kept them in the same envelopes.   So any extras are gone too.

Accidents happen.

That could have been corrected if I had refiled the negatives, but  
one just cannot barge into Brownie's home, take over his evening, and  
say, "I'm filing those negatives now, and then you can do what you  
planned to do tonight."

On Apr 7, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> I have no clue how many PCC photos the Miller Library contains, but  
> we would
> have to check all photos of cars 1225, 1230 and 1278 taken between  
> 1940 and
> 1945 to find when certain modifications were done. Just a comment  
> not worth
> following.
> And there is still the question what cars got the experimental  
> trucks when
> they were new. And whether the car which got trucks with drum  
> brakes had
> extended dynamic braking or not.
>
> B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> To: "PRCo" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 9:14 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] B-3 truck development
>
>
>> The B-3 truck story is very interesting and there was far more  
>> hanky-panky
> than we realized before. And of course, there are also some facts  
> still
> hidden to us.
>>
>
>