[PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars

[John Swindler]

There are some pix of M134 at the scrap track off of Warrington Ave. along with several PCC cars in the process of being dismembered, on Dave's Rail pix. 
 
 

 

> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:48:18 +0000
> From: bobrathke at comcast.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Double End Low Floor Cars
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> Attached is a photo I took of PAT paint car  M-134 (former  PRC  5432), at Tunnel CH on April 4, 1965. 
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> PCC 1446  doesn't have a PAT sti cker on the side, indicating that it was probably a PRC car. 
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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 
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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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> 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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