[PRCo] Re: 3800 Series LOST

[Fred Schneider]

It would cost money to buy, money to move, it doesn't fit in  
everyone's back yard, and the neighbors don't particularly like such  
toys in your back yard.

About 25 years ago Dave Hamley was projecting slides for my  
edification and enjoyment.   Several of them showed a gasoline  
locomotive he once had stored in his garage in a nice suburban  
neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh.   He had rolled it out into the  
driveway for the picture.   In the background was a neighbor dressed  
in a white shirt.   Dave proceeded to tell how he cranked up the  
engine.   When the engine fired, all of the water that had  
accumulated in the exhaust system came up the stack.   It washed the  
dirt out of the muffler and stack.   The neighbor's white shirt was  
no longer white.   It was never again white.  There was no bleach on  
the market that could possibly make it white.  That should give  
insights into why your neighbor might not want any large steel  
objects in your yard.

In my township such objects are simply forbidden by ordinance.   We  
are note even permitted to work on our automobiles in our driveways  
because of one guy who collected too many cars.


On May 6, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Jerry Matt Matsick wrote:

> Content-Type: text/plain
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> Herb
> Good Buddy Mark and I often talk about the reason a 3800 series car  
> was
> not saved?   I remember them quite well in the late 40s and early  
> 50s on the
> Charleroi Interurban route!   A Beautiful Car!
>
> --
> From the River City by the Sea!
> Jerry "Matt" Matsick
> "Jacksonville"
>
>
> -------------- Original message from Herb Brannon  
> <hrbran at sbcglobal.net>: --------------
>
>
>> Since we are on the topic of "saved" PRCo cars.......
>> Why was a 3800 series interurban never saved?? They were around  
>> until 1950. It
>> seems someone would have tried to get one off the scrap pile.
>> Fred Schneider wrote:
>> PST 14 and 78 were not operational. The other revenue fleet was
>> marked in service but not everything was run. Of course that
>> excludes 4398, and Pittsburgh 1100 series PCC and a whole lot of
>> stuff in the Blimp Hanger which is not in the revenue fleet.
>>
>> On May 6, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Jerry Matt Matsick wrote:
>>
>>> Mark M and myself wonder what "cars" actually were operational this
>>> past weekend? Both of us would have given anything to be there as
>>> it looked like a fantastic time.
>>> -- 
>>> From the River City by the Sea!
>>> Jerry "Matt" Matsick
>>> "Jacksonville"
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Herb Brannon
>>
>> Greetings From America's North Coast
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
> -- Type: image/jpeg
> -- Size: 92k (94795 bytes)
> -- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/3800% 
> 20south%20of%20Charleroi.jpg
>
>
>