[PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments....

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Because they were a little over a year too late to save any of the low 3700s or 3800s, more’s the pity.  And even if they had wished go act sooner, they did not have the money.  It was all that the group could do to scrape up the funds to buy WP 832.  A 700 would have cost twice as much, and the funds simply were not available, so none were saved.  Same with the PRC interurbans.  Close as we came was the front end of one of the 3800s in Baxter’s basement.

A 3750 was as close as they could get to a Pittsburgh interurban car.  After all, they were such at one time.

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider 
Sent: Saturday, 18 February, 2012 12:18
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments....
You are correct ... another typo.   Cars 3750-3758 had the left door for Sewickley.   Cars 3759-3769 had no left door.   I had unintentionally reversed them.  
Yes, I understand that car 3756 at PTM is one of the Sewickley group.   I am a qualified operator.  I have run that car more than just a few times.  I have no idea why the museum chose it other than the group was then run largely by individuals and what was saved was what one person or another liked and chose to put his money into.   

If the picture isn't stripped by Encartis, it shows the car at Arden last summer ... not knowing where it's going.   The operator has signs on it for Ingram, Pittsburgh and Canonsburg.   




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