[PRCo] Re: 4200s

Jim Holland PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com
Thu Oct 4 18:01:46 EDT 2007


Interesting  --  those 6-messages haven't come through yet but some not 
yet posted to the website  (updated hourly and within 1 minute so this 
one will show in another hour - at the site)  have arrived in the 
mailbox  --  like this one~!~!~!
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When you say:   """...ow floor, light weight cars we built..."""  does 
that We mean PRCo or the Industry in general?     Believe PRCo started a 
trend with these cars and believe it was because of these cars that WH 
and maybe GE developed much smaller motors.
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Fred Schneider wrote:
> This, Senor Holland, is the car that I would like to see SPTC make ... 
> in red paint of course ... because it is the closest thing to what 
> started all the low floor, light weight cars we built in the teens and 
> twenties. Actually the four converted trailers were older but these 
> were the first production motor cars.
>
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