[PRCo] Re: Fineview

Ken and Tracie ktjosephson at embarqmail.com
Mon Jul 13 23:26:50 EDT 2009


Yes, they were.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:15 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fineview


>   Weren't the GE 1700s used for a brief period on the South Hills lines 
> before they were scrapped?  I have seen quite a few photos of GE 1700s 
> running on rt 39.
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fineview
> Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:27:30 -0400
>
> 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:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 12, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Herb Brannon
>> On America's North Coast
>>
>>
>>
>
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