[PRR-talk] Westinghouse shipments

[Christopher Chany]

When was WECX 201 built?

Chris Chany

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Jerry W. Jordak <jer at smellycat.com> wrote:

>  Norm Bell wrote:
>
> > What was the origin of the large Westinghouse equipment requiring
> > schnabel cars? Items like generators and switchgear.  On what branch
> > or line was it located?
>
> There was a large Westinghouse transformer plant at Sharon, PA, on the
> Erie & Pittsburgh Branch. This plant likely used Schnabel cars, as Al
> Buchan had a couple pictures in his Shenango Valley presentation at the
> 2007 PRRT&HS annual meeting of Schnabel car WECX 201 loaded with a
> transformer in the Erie Ferrona Yard with the transformer plant in the
> background. The PRR served the plant, but many of the transformers were
> interchanged and shipped out of Sharon via the Erie to take advantage of
> the Erie's generous clearances.
>
> There may have been other Westinghouse facilities closer to Pittsburgh
> that also used Schnabel cars, but that's outside of my area of expertise
> so I will speculate no further on that.
>
> BTW, Concept Models makes a resin kit of WECX 201 in HO:
> http://www.con-sys.com/productWECX200.htm
>
> -JWJ
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