What are plausible PRR reweigh codes/lettering for these and other PRR
gons. I'm using a Komar dry transfer for a Tichy War Emergency car and
it only has a "New" date. I can't make out the corect lettering from
The Keystone Modeller article.

Thanks in advance
Stefan Lerche'
Duncan, BC

Stefan Lerche' wrote:

What are plausible PRR reweigh codes/lettering for these and other PRR gons. I'm using a Komar dry transfer for a Tichy War Emergency car and it only has a "New" date. I can't make out the corect lettering from The Keystone Modeller article.

Stefan, I like to use the codes from the major PRR yards, such as Enola (P-50) or Conway (P-341). You also seen P-712 fairly often (the Terre Haute shop) and also P-450 (the Fort Wayne car shop).

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Thanks Tony!
I was wondering what shops those cryptic PRR codes represented.
Stefan

Not being a--- In STMFC@yahoogroups.com, Tony Thompson
<thompsonmarytony@...> wrote:

Stefan Lerche' wrote:

What are plausible PRR reweigh codes/lettering for these and

other PRR

gons. I'm using a Komar dry transfer for a Tichy War Emergency

car and

it only has a "New" date. I can't make out the corect lettering

from

The Keystone Modeller article.

Stefan, I like to use the codes from the major PRR yards,

such as

Enola (P-50) or Conway (P-341). You also seen P-712 fairly often

(the

Terre Haute shop) and also P-450 (the Fort Wayne car shop).

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@...
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If anyone wants a key to the different PRR Track Scale abbreviations, a list
from 1923 can be found at
http://prr.railfan.net/lists/track_scales_1923.html. I have one from 1945
but it is not online. It is interesting to note that renumbering may have
occurred as the 1923 list, lists P-450 as the Indiana Harbor, Ind., Car
Shop, and not Fort Wayne car Shop (P-441) as mentioned by Mr. Thompson, the
others match what he said.

Brian J Carlson P.E.
Cheektowaga NY

Brian J Carlson wrote:

It is interesting to note that renumbering may have occurred as the 1923 list, lists P-450 as the Indiana Harbor, Ind., Car Shop, and not Fort Wayne car Shop (P-441) as mentioned by Mr. Thompson, the others match what he said.

My list came from the PRR list provided years ago by Richard Hendrickson, the era of which I don't know. I have handed that list out as part of the handout for my Pennsy freight car modeling clinic over a number of years.

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
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Guys;

Station P-62 (Holidaysburg or E. Altoona?) was also used really frequently on
gon shoppings through the end of this list's interests, as it was the
designated site for rebuildings of that fleet. Check out some photos and
you'll see it over and over.

No, I did not have decals for that one, since I need way more than a handful
and no one makes it (I can't stand piecing stuff that small together), but I
intend on doing a sheet of these when I get out from under all the rest of
this stuff...

Elden Gatwood

BTW guys, there aren't any dashes in PRR scale codes either.


Ben Hom

Gatwood, Elden wrote:

Station P-62 (Holidaysburg or E. Altoona?) was also used really frequently on
gon shoppings through the end of this list's interests, as it was the
designated site for rebuildings of that fleet. Check out some photos and
you'll see it over and over.

Elden, the list I have gives P62 as Hollidaysburg EB, and P63 as Hollidaysburg WB, meaning scale tracks in the EB and WB yards.
Yesterday Brian Carlson commented that P450 is Indiana Harbor and P441 is Fort Wayne. Rechecking my list, I agree. Terre Haute is P712. I mis-typed what I thought I was saying <g>.

Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA
2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com
(510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@signaturepress.com
Publishers of books on railroad history