[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Re: Pa Trolley Museum on KDKA

[Schneider Fred]

Yeah.   Right.   One 3800 never ran.   They why did the advertising  
agency waste money putting advertising in it for years?

It ran.   That is just a railfan legend.


On Aug 22, 2009, at 4:20 PM, bill937ca wrote:

> --- In LRPPro at yahoogroups.com, Edson Tennyson <etennyson at ...> wrote:
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> IT  WAS  NOT  THE  BEST  IN  1925.:
>    In that KDKA Trolley Museum news report they stated that the now
> old orange low fioor 375? car was the BEST of the art in 1925
> for service on the Charleroi and Washington lines.  They were
> multiple unit and that is what the were bought for BUT they
> were lousy for that service, even though they had high backed rattan
> forward facing seats, and a smoking compartment.
> Thomas Fitzgerald was General Manager, Vice President  and Trustee
> from 1925 to 1950 and he told me himself
> "those cars were the worst mistake I ever made."
>    By 1928, they had been replaced by the 3800 series Saint Louis Car
> Co. interurbans which were also lemons of a different flavor.
> One car was so bad it never ran but sat at Homewood shop to be
> cannibalized for parts.  I think the body was too weak for the iength
> and
> stresses on bad track at high speed.  The other 14   3800's served
> pretty well from 1928 to 1949 when their very poor condition required
> replacement by PCC cars equipped with B-3 trucks for use on bad
> track.  The 3750's of 1925 were sent to Route #23 Sewickley for  
> service
> on that suburban run which required doors be cut in the left side
> front for passengers to get on and off on Neville Island
> where the track was too close to the road to permit boarding on the
> street side of the car.  The 3750's lasted longer than the newer  
> 3800's
> as P.Ry.Co liked  them for Library rush hour tripper service and
> sometimes Canonsburg and Finleyville trippers.  There was no loop at
> Finleyville so they were really New Eagle (Riverview) trippers that
> dead-headed back to South Hills Junction to balance crews between
> Charleroi and South Hills.  As a commuter on the Charleroi line 1947
> to 1949, I often rode both 1925 and 1928 model cars. The 3750's
> were stripped of their interurban seats and were little different
> from  city cars but one had kept its interurban interior.
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> On Aug 19, 2009, at 11:26 PM, John Swindler wrote:
>> Pennsylvania trolley museum made KDKA news - On link below, click
>> on horsecar for video.  Dial up might have problems with video due
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>> Subject: KDKA
>> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:56:43 -0400
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>> http://kdka.com/kdcountry/Pennsylvania.trolley.museum.2.1129569.html
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