[PRCo] Re: West Penn 832

[John Swindler]

Wasn't it a leased car, which is how it escaped the West Penn scrap list?
 
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] West Penn 832> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 21:15:05 -0400> > There was another story about John Baxter ...> > I remember being told and I don't know if I heard it from John > Swindler or from some one else but it went, "If I had looked more > closely at the car first, I wouldn't have run it quite so fast from > Charleroi to Pittsburgh."> > Apparently John looked at the wheel profile after the trip was over > and only then discovered that the wheels were quite well worn. The > flanges on West Penn 832 are not round like they are supposed to > be. They are square from much wear.> > Like so many cars that our trolley museums purchased, that car was > another example of a vehicle that was on its last legs and there is > simply no way that a company could even consider investing money in a > car that they were about to scrap ... not if you do not wish to be > lynched by the stockholders. > > 
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