[PRCo] Re: B3 TRUCKS ON PITTSBURGH CITY 1700S

[Boris Cefer]

Forward my thanks to Dave Hamley.

It would be interesting to know more about truck maintenance practices (and
the whole streetcar maintenance rules) in Pittsburgh, both in PRCo and PAAC
days.

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 1:05 AM
Subject: [PRCo] B3 TRUCKS ON PITTSBURGH CITY 1700S


> >
> 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