[PRCo] Re: Car 1600

[Schneider Fred]

All sorts of places, Ken.  I had my St. Petersburg model painted for  
76 Hamilton which matches one of the pictures in the Westinghouse  
advertising book.   I know it worked out of Homewood in the beginning  
and it was there at the end ... or it was there for work at the  
end.   Bromley has a picture of it on 22 CROSSTOWN ... that suggests  
it was assigned either to Herron Hill or Manchester for a while.    
I've seen pictures of it at Kennywood on route 68 ... guess it must  
have been at Craft for a while.   And I've seen pictures of it  
working on the Sousside.    Suspect it migrated around every time a  
carbarn foreman got tired of it.

Was it a bad car?  Not really.   Not any different from a Johnstown  
car.   After they quit running the guts were incorporated into new  
cars in Brussels and those were still around when I rode them in the  
1980s.   It is simply that every time you inflict a single oddball  
vehicle on a repair shop or a motorman, most would rather see you  
give it to some other shop or motorman.    Human nature.




On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:05 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:

> So where did one-of-a-kind all electric car 1600 see the most  
> service? Was
> it being serviced or just mothballed when it was destroyed by fire?
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> K.
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