[PRCo] Re: Photo from Yesterday

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Stay tuned.  Dave "Mr. Roster" Hamley is currently researching an article on
the history of the steel high floor cars.  It's likely to turn up in Trolley
Fare soon.  He and I are scheduled to work on the project tomorrow morning,
in fact. 

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
Schneider Fred
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 3:32 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Photo from Yesterday

It was my impression that the last 4000s and 4100s were replaced by  
the first two orders of PCC cars.   There were also some 4700s  
written off the books at the time too and also trailers.

On May 12, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I believe these are the original design doors.  They are not very 
> wide, and it is easy to understand why we found news articles about 
> the passengers flocking to the trailers first.
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> The cars last hauled trailers in 1937, but some were also in single- 
> unit service into the late '30s.  Considering that they could not be 
> run as one-man cars, their use would have been limited to very heavy 
> traffic times.
> Thirteen were converted to snow scrapers in 1940, so they wouldn't 
> have been totally rare during the '40s.  It snowed here in those days!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Phillip Clark Campbell
> Sent: Saturday, May 09, 2009 2:49 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Photo from Yesterday
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>> ----- Original Message ----
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>> From: Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Sent: Friday, May 8, 2009 2:43:12 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Photo from Yesterday
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>> I thought list members might enjoy one of my photos from yesterday, 
>> with PRCo 4145 up on the jacks and the trailer being pulled out so 
>> the shop trucks could be placed.
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>> Ed
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> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/02-DSC_0101.JPG
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> Mr.Lybarger;
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> This 'is' a high-floor car isn't it;  watch the last step please!   
> Painted
> as M cars they seem to lose much of their character;  painted for PRC 
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> the camera angle gives 4145 a beautiful if formidable appearance.   
> Living on
> the interurbans I didn't see these cars much and just have vague 
> recollections of them in the 1940s but none were revenue cars at this 
> time.
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> Are the doors a modification of the original by PRC?  They look such 
> don't they.
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> Phil
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