[PRCo] Re: Charleroi Car House - F6 in prior life

[Jim Holland]

My qualifying word was  *_Similar_*  --  general body lines were quite 
similar.   I didn't have any good photos of the W&C car to post so used 
these - one can see the deck roofing and shape of the ends  --  PRCo 
obviously widened the car slightly when they sheathed the sides in metal 
so the general appearance of the 34s without windows would not be unlike 
the W&C~!~!



 > Bob wrote:
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 > Jim:
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 > You show some 3400 series cars as examples of F6 before it was F6.
 > I don't have any evidence but I doubt they looked like the 3400 cars.
 > This line - http://mywebpages.comcast.net/shawncd/SHJ/cr3551.htm -
 > shows 3553 in its first life as W&C 203.

Bob

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Subject: [PRCo] Charleroi Car House

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-03->--F6 itself, converted to Freight service almost 91-years ago from 
3551 which was a renumbering by PRCo of W&C car 201. This car was 
scrapped in January of 1946. While painted orange here, it is not 
unlikely that something like this in maroon could be spotted at 
Charleroi during WW2.
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Here are some photos of equipment quite similar to F6 before it was 
converted - in the maroon / gold striping.
-- 
*Jim Holland*

Studying *Pittsburgh Railways Company*

....................From 1930 -- 1950

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