[PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars

[Bob Rathke]

Attached is a photo I took of PAT paint car  M-134 (former  PRC  5432), at Tunnel CH on April 4, 1965. 



PCC 1446 Â doesn't have a PAT sti cker on the side, indicating that it was probably a PRC car. 



Bob 



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From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
To: "Pittsburgh Railways" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org> 
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:34:04 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars 

Fred 

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. 

Dwight 

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. Â I gave Ed all that I had some time ago. 
  
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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