[PRCo] Re: Fineview

[Schneider Fred]

Not until perhaps close to the very end of service, Boris.

Ingram, Millvale and Keating had the General Electric cars.    The  
other divisions had Westinghouse cars.   The principal object was to  
simplify parts stocks.  The Railways company did not want to have to  
have GE commutator or Westinghouse accelerator parts in all the  
barns.   Homewood had mixed Westinghouse and GE cars surplus to the  
needs of all the other barns because the central parts supply room  
was one block down the street.

I never saw a Westinghouse 1600 at Keating and my grandmother lived  
on Perrysville Avenue during Pittsburgh Railways ownership (until 1962).


On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:04 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> Keating had also a few Westinghouse 1600s.
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> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fineview
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> What do you mean by "1601s" ? If you mean all 100 of them, then  
> that would
> be the "1600 series". Bear in mind that 21-Fineview operated from  
> Keating
> Car House. Keating had PCC cars numbered from xx75 to xx99 (General  
> Electric
> cars). The book "Pittsburgh Railways" states that PCC operation on
> 21-Fineview started in 1951, as does "PCC-From Coast to Coast".  
> Several
> photos of PCCs in both books show only 1680s and 1690s on Fineview.  
> I have
> one photo of car 1111 on Fineview, however, it is on a fan trip.  
> Other books
> I have with photos of Fineview show the 1680s and 1690s in regular  
> service
> on that route. Noteworthy is that "Pittsburgh Railways" also indicates
> 21Fineview did not start running into downtown Pgh until June 9,1952.
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