[PRCo] PRC 1600

[Dwight Long]

Herb

I have that same list somewhere in files.

The remaining low 3700 and 3800s made their last trip to Ingram shortly after that list was published.  They had last been used in tripper service the previous fall.  3801 was the last to arrive at Ingram, having been towed inoperative from Charleroi.  All were said to have met the torch by the first of April.

Ironically I had come in to Pgh on the P&LE one Saturday morning for an orthodontist appointment in the Jenkins Arcade.  I was standing on the inbound PRC platform at the P&LE station when I saw a long procession of the red interurbans coming out of the tunnel mouth and turning left onto West Carson Street.  Even at my young age I figured out why.  But I did not have a camera with me.  Still have the memory, though.

Dwight

From: Herb Brannon 
Sent: Tuesday, 08 July, 2014 09:53
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRC 1600
Dwight,

I have a very comprehensive and complete listing of all PRCo Revenue
Equipment on the property as of January 1, 1952. Listed are sixteen (16)
3700-series cars still available for "revenue service" at Tunnel CH and two
(2) 3800-series cars still available for "revenue service" at Charleroi CH.
There are  eleven (11) 3700-series and nine (9) 3800-series cars listed as
being in "dead storage" at Rankin CH. The chart also lists one (1)
3700-series and two (2) 3800-series cars (in addition to the previous 11
and 9 cars) as being in the process of being scrapped, also at Rankin CH.
It would have been possible that trucks were removed from one of these to
serve as "shop trucks" sometime prior to 1955.


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:08 PM, D Brashear <shadow at dementix.org> wrote:

> have a link.
>
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> http://www.ebay.com/itm/ORIGINAL-LAB-MADE-TROLLEY-PHOTO-1-ONLY-PITTSBURGH-PCC-1600-HOMEWOOD-FIRE-/400732940334?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d4d8b682e
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> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net>
> wrote:
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> >
> > List
> >
> > Take a look at the shot of the burnt out remains of 1600 in Bear's
> current
> > eBay listing.  What are those trucks?  Obviously not belonging to 1600.
> >  So, are they shop trucks or are they trucks from a 3800 series car, all
> of
> > which supposedly scrapped by end of 1952?
> >
> > Dwight
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