[PRCo] Re: PRCo Dumps // Coal // Ash Cars

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I love the Pittsburgh Railways records...they burned all-steel cars before
they rendered them!  The only wood on the dump cars was the cab roofs and
trolley boards, and the only other flammable component would have been the
insulation.

Wouldn't have made much of a fire.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James
B. Holland
Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 4:31 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Dumps // Coal // Ash Cars


Notes indicate that 517 was converted  to Weed Sprayer on 19340519  --
Sorry for the oversight.       It doesn't list a disposition for the car
but we now know it went to PTM.
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515  and  516  were burned at West Park on  19320126  and  19320417
respectively.
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515 was sold to DLCo on Brunots Island 19481104.
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Of the low 500s all were scrapped by burning by 1935 at WP except for
M503 which was burned at Millvale.       But 502 was converted to the
2nd M541 on  19300611  and is listed as a Loco, for Rail Car(!!),  a
little over 76 years ago;  this  2nd M541  was scrapped by burning at
Ingram  19511206.
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Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
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>517 was converted to a sprayer car.  We scrapped it at PTM and put the
trucks under 3618 - the Boston Elevated bottom dump.  M517 was pretty
decrepit when we got it, and we contracted our weed spraying in those days,
so it was never considered for preservation...just parts.
>
>Now we spray ourselves, using the big motor car and a tank-equipped flat
car.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>On Behalf Of James B. Holland
>Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 3:35 PM
>
>Bob's site and my information list three groupings of Dump cars::
>.
>500--505  --  6 cars  --  Clark Car Co.
>.
>514--517  --  4 cars  --  Differential
>.
>550--555  --  6 cars  --  Differential
>.
>500 thru 517 were scrapped by the mid 1930s so the photo that Bob showed us
could have been one of these cars.
>.
>.
>PRCo had some Coal // Ash cars.
>.
>M104 is listed as an  ASH  car for Glenwood PowerHouse - built 1896,
scrapped 19240318 - 18 feet long!
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>The   *--FIRST--*    M281,    M282,    M283,    M285,       In Addition To
M284,    M286,    M287,    M288,    M289    were listed as Ash_//_Coal  cars
and details are sketchy  --  nothing as to builder nor date nor if motorized
or just trailers.       Most, but not all, sold to  DLCo  on Brunots Island.
>.
>.
>.
>Jim___Holland
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