[PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen

[Fred Schneider]

There was, I believe, 1 3800 and 1 3700 that remained at Charleroi on the active roster for a while in case of need.   I have seen pictures of them in 1950.


On Sep 5, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

> 
> Fred
> 
> Your comment about 3700s and 3800s stored at Millvale is interesting.  I was 
> unaware of this.
> 
> Apparently after their last tripper use the fleet was stored in several 
> places.  I recall seeing some at Charleroi.
> 
> One Saturday in 1952 I was going to the Jenkins Arcade for my monthly 
> orthodontist appointment and whilst standing in the shelter house at the 
> P&LE station, I saw a long procession of 3700s and 3800s come out of the 
> tunnel, turn left, and proceed out West Carson Street.  I had no camera and 
> also no knowledge of why this strange move.  Of course I later learned that 
> they were destined to the scrap track at Ingram.  Why they were moved en 
> masse I know not.  It was a goodly number but by no means the entire fleet 
> of both series.
> 
> Sewickley and Ingram were closer to my home town.  Ask if you need to know 
> something--I might know.  But probably not.  It's been a long 
> time--------------------
> 
> Dwight
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: "Pittsburgh Railways" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 1:23 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo Evergreen
> 
> 
>> Ray,
>> 
>> I don't propose to be a know it all.   My grandparents lived at 3462 
>> Delaware Avenue, which was one block off Perrysville at the Venture Street 
>> carstop.   My mother's brother moved up to Cheswick the very day that 
>> monster snowstorm hit in 1951 (the moving van was emptied but didn't get 
>> back to Pittsburgh for several days).   OK ... now put this into 
>> perspective.   We live in the other end of the state.   We go home to 
>> Pittsburgh to visit Grandma and Grandpa.
>> 
>> Now my mom wants to visit her brother.   My father, who had lived in the 
>> Pittsburgh area from 1929 until 1949 isn't dumb.   He isn't going to drive 
>> into the lower north side and then up the river.   Too many traffic 
>> lights.
>> 
>> You drive down Venture to East and out East to Evergreen and over the 
>> hilltop to Millvale and then  up the river ... saves a few minutes. 
>> (Because of that route I also remember the aging 3700s and 3800s sitting 
>> in Millvale Yard awaiting scrapping after PCCs went into service on the 
>> interubans.)
>> 
>> But in the process many times I saw the yellow car waiting at the end of 
>> the 12 line.   Then when we went out for Grandpa's funeral in December 
>> 1953, there were two double end Jones cars at Keating Car House.   Route 
>> 12 had just been replaced with a Manchester - Evergreen bus.
>> 
>> I also remember details like the Laketon Road car because we lived in Penn 
>> Township.
>> 
>> But don't expect me to understand Ingram or Sewickley or Carnegie.
>> 
>> Some places you look at and the mind instantly says, I know where that is. 
>> Other things ... duh.   I just drove up Evergreen Road and turned there so 
>> many times that it was imprinted.
>> 
>> Fred
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 5, 2011, at 12:57 PM, rayprco53 at verizon.net wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks a bunch.
>>> ------Original Message------
>>> From: Ray
>>> Sender: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>>> To: PRCo
>>> ReplyTo: PRCo
>>> Subject: [PRCo] PRCo Evergreen
>>> Sent: Sep 5, 2011 12:20 PM
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello. Found this picture at Historic Pittsburgh web site.
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>>> End of Route 12 Evergreen? I can not line this up with
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>>> google maps. Can someone help me?
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>>> 
>>> Thanks
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ray
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