[PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars

[John Swindler]

I have a picture from inside a low-floor car being scrapped at Homewood.  John Baxter was surprised that it was taken June 16, 1957 - he said that he thought all the low floors had been scrapped by then.  As an 11 year old, I didn't think to write down the car number. 
 

 

> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Subject: [PRCo] Double End Low Floor Cars
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:35:41 -0500
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
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> From Hamley:
> There are many PRCo assignment sheets in the archives. I gave Ed all that I had some time ago. 
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> I do have roster info here, including the scrap dates for virtually every car. After the 1954 strike there were a handful of lowfloors kept for two more years. The last were scrapped in 8/56. As for the two cars specifically asked about, 4366 went to storage 5/27/53 and was scrapped at Ingram 7/23/53. 4393 went to storage 12/6/53 and was scrapped at Ingram 5/18/56. Of the various 4350 series cars the only ones that lasted until 1956 were 4373, 4388, and 4393-4399. Of course all of those were “high speed” cars, so converted in 1941 according to PRCo ledgers. All the rest were gone by late 1953.
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