[PRCo] B3 TRUCKS ON PITTSBURGH CITY 1700S

[Fred Schneider]

>
HERE IS HAMLEY'S RESPONSE TO YOUR QUESTION, BORIS:

> The best answer I can give you at the instant is "Most of them"   
> There is no doubt an actual accounting of B2B vs. B3 trucks on all  
> the 1700s, but I don't have it.  PAT bought a number of sets of B3  
> castings from Hall Industries, who in turn had the castings made by  
> a French foundry, the name of which escapes me at the moment.   
> Their French nameplates were still on many of the truck castings.   
> Some trucks had a mixture of original St. Louis castings with the  
> Hall parts.  By the late days of 1700 car operation (i.e., just  
> before the 7/88 retirement of all non-rebuilt cars) almost  
> everything that was active had B3's.  A lot of the "city" 1700s  
> that got B3 trucks did so because PAT had scaled back construction  
> of the 4000s and had a lot of truck parts "left over."
>
> DH
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
>> Date: September 3, 2006 4:03:27 PM EDT
>> To: "PRCo" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Subject: [PRCo] City PCCs
>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>
>> Which city 1700s received B-3 trucks in the '80s?
>>
>> There is no doubt these trucks came from interurban 1700s which  
>> donated other components for the construction of new 4000s. These  
>> cars got entirely new ("Hall") B-3 trucks containing only small  
>> amount of old components.
>>
>> Boris
>>