[PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars

[John Swindler]

It was either Aug 1967 or Aug 1968.  That's the one car I would have liked to see saved, but was still struggling with college.  It wasn't until 1973 that I could start making donations to PTM.
 

 

> From: dwightlong at verizon.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars
> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:34:04 -0500
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> Fred
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> Actually not all were scrapped in 1956. One was saved—5432—and converted into the paint car to replace a DE car formerly in that assignment. I don’t know when the (ex-5432) was scrapped, but not 1956.
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> Dwight
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> From: Fred Schneider 
> Sent: Saturday, 18 February, 2012 10:35
> To: Pittsburgh Railways 
> Subject: [PRCo] Double End Low Floor Cars
> 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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