[PRCo] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Re: Fwd: Orange Empire Railway Museum Red Cars / Yellow Cars Update 11/6/07]]

[Jim Holland]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Fwd: [PRCo] Re: Fwd: Orange Empire Railway Museum Red 
Cars / Yellow Cars Update 11/6/07]
Date: 	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:05:45 -0800
From: 	John Smatlak
To: 	Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
CC: 	Schneider III, Fred W. <fwschneider at comcast.net>
References: 	<473A1411.9000909 at P-R-Co.com>



Jim, Fred-

The drip rail castings that Fred provided are indeed on hand (we even 
have the original packing list), and I believe the windshield frames are 
actually on the car.

LARy 3001 has actually undergone several restoration projects. One of 
the earliest restored the car to its chrome yellow appearance for an 
early ARM convention at OET. A later project restored the windshield to 
"as built" condition, presumably using the parts you provided. Our more 
recent restoration completed a lot of unfinished details (example: new 
rubber and glass in the windows, changing the bumper bolts to the 
correct chrome football-shaped oval carriage bolts) and we repainted the 
car from the letterboard down, which it really needed. The paint on the 
roof, which includes the drip rail end castings simulated with painted 
stripes, was deemed to be in good shape, so we simply cleaned it up and 
let it be for now. Returning the drip rail end castings to the car would 
have been a major project, and in the interest of "spreading the wealth 
around" to the fleet instead of just sinking it all into one car, we 
decided to defer that portion of the work.

The next phase of the project involves adding the interior lettering. 
Hopefully you'll get a chance to see the car for yourself. In the mean 
time there are photos on the website: 
http://www.oerm.org/pages/lary3001.html



Jim Holland wrote:
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Orange Empire Railway Museum Red Cars / 
> Yellow Cars Update 11/6/07
> Date: 	Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:47:43 -0500
> From: 	Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: 	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> To: 	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> References: 	<fh816l+l8rn at eGroups.com>
>
>
>
>
> Jim: you might pass one question back to Smatlak from me. Many years 
> ago Dave Garcia asked me if I could get an opening windshield frame 
> and the aluminum molding for the front and rear of the letterboard for 
> this car from cars in the scrap line in Philadelphia. I did and 
> shipped them to OERM. Then I went out to OERM and uncrated them. The 
> last time I was there, they were never installed. Have them been or 
> was this one of those wild goose chases?
>
> fws
>
> On Nov 11, 2007, at 5:54 PM, James B. Holland wrote:
>
> >
> > LA Railway "PCC" 3001- Got an exterior wash on Saturday. We also
> > noticed that it has a roof leak- so we need to remember that this is
> > not a car we want to use during rainy weather.
> >
>