[PRCo] Re: Last PRR Pittsburgh - Elrama service

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Wed Sep 1 22:10:04 EDT 2010


You missed my point. The article said the division was using diesels
(which it surely was) not that every train, especially the passenger
trains, were dieselized.


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> But they had to have steam heat boilers.  I though they bought a flock of RS2s or RS3s in 1952 to dieselize the Pittsburgh commuter trains.   Washington service may have ended to save buying diesels for it.   If you can find something, then we can amend it.   It wasn't Pittsburgh trolley but I thought you and your Chicago area list member would be happy to read that item.
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