[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh car trucks

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I'm just looking for reasons why the weight would be that different.  Don't
know about wheel diameter on the 3800s...they were a different animal
altogether, but I'd be sure the wheels were larger than 25 inches. 

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Phillip
Clark Campbell
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:27 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh car trucks

Mr.Lybarger;

The 5000s weigh in about 3,000 more as well.

Didn't the 3800s have 28" wheels?



 Phil
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From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>

To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 5:50:09 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh car trucks

What no one has been able to successfully explain to me is why the 3750s are
listed as being 5000 pounds heavier as essentially identical low floor cars
in other series.
We encountered this discrepancy when we were looking at things for 4398 a
few years ago.

I do not believe that there was that much difference in the weights. 

-----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 10:16 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Pittsburgh car trucks

Do not know if I ever put this on line before ... 
might be useful to some of you.
Comes from a Pittsburgh Railways drawing created in 1926 and revised in
1935.

Shows car series numbers, trucks, and car weights:

Purfesseur Fred

SERIES    TRUCK                 CAR WEIGHT

3100         Bemis                        48,000

3400         Bemis                        50,000

3500         St. Louis                    58,000

3600         Baldwin                      71,900

3700         M-26     27" dia.         49,000

3750         M-25                          45,000

3800         M-27                          49,500

4000         Brill 49-E-2                 48,000

4100         Standard CP-50         48,000

4200         M-25                          40,000

4250         M-25                          40,000

4300         M-25                          40,000

4350         M-25                          41,000

4400         M-25                          40,000

4700         M-25                          38,000

48-4900    M-25                          39,000

5000         M-25                          43,200

5100         M-25                          40,500

5200         M-25                          40,500

5400        M-25                           40,000

5500        M-25                           40,000

B200        M-25                           28,000