[PRCo] Car 3556

[Fred Schneider]

When I was in Europe, Jim Holland posted a picture of 3556.   In all  
the debris and detris that Bob Dietrich, John Swindler and Ed  
Lybarger hauled out of my home and dumped in my apartment during my  
absence, I just discovered a copy of the car record card for that car.

Dimensions were left blank.   It shows the car was contracted in 1915  
from Standard Steel as a 1 - 2 man closed motor car.   It was listed  
as converted to double end in 1928 but, as we know, the doors were  
never changed.  The car had two M-24 trucks but these appear to have  
ben changed on Sept. 15, 1925 to M-25.   The car had a Westinghouse  
DH-16 compressor with an AR governor, and it was changed to an R-4  
governor in 1928.   The car originally had 2 M-20A brake valves,  
changed to 2 M-20AS valves.   Brake cylder was a 10x12.   There were  
three 10x32 air reservoirs.   The car originally 4 No. 247 motors  
with a gear ratio of 18:47, 2 PR controllers with 5 grids and  
Westinghouse contactors.   The term PR controllers usually meant  
Pittsburgh Railways Jones control.   On January 2, 1939 safety  
control equipment was applied ... I think the state law required it  
by the end of 1938.   The conversion to 1/2 man operation was done on  
Aug. 4, 1930.

I've ignored some of the minor details.