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

[Dwight Long]

John

No.

832 was purchased by a group of individuals, but under the aegis of the then 
PERC.  Getting it transferred to the ownership of then PRMA took a little 
doing, but that's another story.

My understanding is that M1 was acquired by Barley, Galbraith and Brown.  I 
don't know the story of 3756.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:13 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments....


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> I was under the impression that 3756 was an individual purchase rather 
> than a museum purchase.  832 was a more traditional museum purchase.  And 
> there is an impression that it was three individuals that saved M1.  I'd 
> like to hear the 'real' story.  1138 is another car whose acquisition 
> might have been dueto one person.  But however they were acquired, we 
> should be thankful they were saved.
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>> From: hrbran at cavtel.net
>> Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:01:30 -0500
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments....
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
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>> It's a grandparent too !
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:18, Fred Schneider 
>> <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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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>> Herb Brannon
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