[PRCo] Re: Didn't Stop Soon Enough

[Ken and Tracie]

I'm wondering if 1629 had serious enough structural, mechanical or 
electrical damage to render it inoperable?

The fact that they scrapped a thirteen year old car seems to indicate the 
car was beyond economical repair.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:53 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Didn't Stop Soon Enough


> Manchester was open until June 1959.
>
> But are we making assumptions that they could not run it?   I've got
> a picture of a 1700 that ran into a truck and pushed in the dasher so
> far you couldn't open the front door.   It ran all the way to
> Charleroi before being changed out for another car.   I have the
> picture of all the people getting off.   Lester Wismer took the picture.
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
>
>> Maybe if PRCO had put 1629's roof cowl/ventilator on 1630, PAT
>> wouldn't have
>> noticed the difference and maybe they would not have rejected the
>> latter
>> car. :-)
>>
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:16 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Didn't Stop Soon Enough
>>
>>
>>> I guess Manchester was still open at this point, wasn't it?
>>> They'd likely
>>> push it to the nearest barn for pickup by the tow car.  I'd assume
>>> they
>>> would strip it for certain parts at Homewood before hauling it to
>>> Rankin.
>>
>>
>
>