PC: Re: PC Passenger Cars -- I'm Delighted to be Proven Wrong

["Rob Carlo" <robcarlo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,
   I replied to Bryan's original request for info.   According to the PC
Passenger Car Directory (5-1-68) reprinted by PC Railroader, these cars
were scheduled to be renumbered as follows: 280 to 4180, 284 to 4184, 290
to 4190, 294 to 4194, and 295 to 4195.   
   It is possible that no cars actually saw service and may have never
received these numbers.
      
 Rob       

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> From: Philip.Kuhl -AT- ping.be
> To: penn-central -AT- smellycat.com
> Subject: PC: PC Passenger Cars -- I'm Delighted to be Proven Wrong
> Date: Wednesday, April 15, 1998 4:36 PM
> 
> Many thanks, Bryan!
> 
>  
> Bryan, could you give us some more of the history of WH&E number 290?  My
> records show that NYC ordered 20 ACF baggage/48 seat coaches in May 1944,
> and they were delivered in February and March 1947 and ran under the NYC
> numbers 280-299.  Then my records show all of the cars, including NYC
290,
> were retired between 1964 and 1968 with no cars seeing PC service.  (But
you
> say WH&E 290 was previously PC 4910, which suggests it may have seen PC
> service -- particularly if it was in good enough shape to have been
> repainted.)  Finally, my records show all of these ACF cars having been
> scrapped -- except for NYC 290 which was sold to a Ted Church in Erie,
> Pennsylvania.  Can you tell us if that is right, and how the car ended up
> with the WH&E?
> 
>  
> Phil