[PRCo] Re: Fineview

[Schneider Fred]

As the Fonz would have said, Correctemundo.

In that last year 6/14 and 21 ran out of Tunnel.   Keating closed the  
night that 10/15 and 8 quit in 1965.   After that GE cars were not an  
issue.   PAT retired the GE cars.   Remember the pictures of the last  
GE 1700s sitting down at Palm Garden when they were hunting a buyer  
that never materialized.   There were rumors that Boston might have  
been interested.   Perhaps only railfan rumors.   At that point there  
probably enough Westinghouse cars to run the whole system ... the  
only routes still running that had previous had GE cars were 6/14 and  
21.   How many cars did they require?   Five or six out of Tunnel's  
fleet?

Also at that point PAT was running the show.   They had fired all the  
engineering people.   It is quite likely that they had forgotten why  
selected 19680s and 1690s were assigned to Fineview.   If we don't  
know why, then we don't care.


On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Fora short period of time the last of the North Side routes ran  
> from So
> Hills Jct? Cars would have been assigned by where they were sitting  
> in the
> yard, not by electrical equipment.
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Edward H. Lybarger  
> <trams2 at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> Yes, but photographic evidence exists of W cars at Keating or on  
>> Keating
>> routes.  It was not particularly common.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
>>  Schneider Fred
>> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 5:49 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fineview
>>
>> Most of the advertising cars were at Herron Hill, later at  
>> Manchester.
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>> On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
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>>> DHH's roster lists them in 1952, hmmm?
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 9:43 PM
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fineview
>>>
>>>
>>> But this was primarily in later years, and included advertising cars
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Boris Cefer
>>> Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 3:04 PM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fineview
>>>
>>> Keating had also a few Westinghouse 1600s.
>>>
>>> B
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> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
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