[PRCo] Re: For Boris

[Ken & Tracie]

Thanks, Fed.

Rankin...that's what I meant, Fred. Why I typed in Craft, I don't know. 
Rankin was an East End car house, wasn't it?

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 12:10 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: For Boris


> Without looking at any rosters to see where cars were stored, I am
> assuming it was Rankin.   There were a lot of 1200s stored there in
> the late 1960s.   I remember Norm Vutz telling me that PAT had askd
> PRC if they could have some of them and PRC countering with, "Why ask
> us, you condemned the property, they're yours."  At that point PAT
> would not touch them with the proverbial ten foot pole for fear of
> admitting ownership.  And in the long range, in the out of court
> settlement, PRC gave up and PAT won and PRC scrapped the cars in
> Rankin and PRC sold the building.
>
> On May 9, 2007, at 2:14 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:
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>> I haven't come through on several promises...I've been wanting to put
>> together some disks with R. Hill pix on them for some of you and
>> Boris has
>> been after me to rescan some pix of PCCs being scrapped and of some
>> unused
>> cars (rejected by PAT) which were stored in a car house (Craft?).
>> I haven't dug out all the pix nor have I made the time to put
>> together any
>> disks, but here's a photo taken on January 13th, 1967. I dunno,
>> 1606 appears
>> to look better than some of the 1600s PAT kept. Must have had some
>> serious
>> mechanical issues.
>>
>> I wish I could whip up those CDs and get 'em sent out, but I may
>> have to
>> wait until I take some time off from work and have several
>> uninterrupted
>> days to scan and put them together.
>>
>> Anyway, enjoy the photo. It proves Pittsburgh can be as dusty as
>> Mohave
>> Desert.
>>
>> K.
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