[PRCo] Re: Car 1600

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Excellent point Mr.McGuire;  the railway is known to show
off its equipment to attract riders.
Quoting more of the photo caption on pg.172 of the 2nd
PCC book:  "The car [1600] was used on any line based at
Craft Ave. Car House."  Car 1600 was 'possibly' based at
a number of barns for demonstration purposes.  These
photos show the car on the 48 and at SHJ:
http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/bvp007.htm

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/bvp008.htm

I have seen the photo of 1600 on the 22 offered on ebay.

Here's a couple at Craft:
http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/wvp104.htm

http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/wvp105.htm

We know that interurban 1700 was used in demonstration
on the 22-Crosstown don't we.  The pilot was replaced with
a lifeguard for this demo wasn't it.  This has led some to
incorrectly speculate that 1700 was delivered as a city car
and converted for interurban use by PRC.
    

Phil
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From: Mark McGuire <macmarka at netzero.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 8:23:15 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Car 1600

That's why I simply had mine with "CAR HOUSE" on the dest. sign. I suspect PRCo probably wanted to see how it ran on certain routes. More than that, I'd say they may have wanted to show it off. If you look at that Bromley photo, the car looks pretty new. What better route to show off a car than on 22.
---------- Original Message ----------
From: Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Car 1600
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:24:02 -0400

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?
>
> K.