Chris
Thanks for the info on Pennsy capital spending priorities after the war. Putting car rebuilding after track and the PRRs belated Dieselization puts some context to the PRR BO car numbers above. The high percentage of BO locomotives on NYC might also explain why Al Perlman was so busy scrapping steam locomotives when he arrived at the Central a few years later.
It is too bad that the PRR was saddled with the legacy of pre-war decisions and old school management. They desperately needed someone like Perlman. Instead, it appears that they had steam era management into the jet age. The only good thing I can see in the PC collapse it that it might have been the only thing that could have prompted the federal government allow railroads enough freedom to become truly profitable again.
I found a few short videos that I thought folks here might enjoy.
A picture worth a thousand words
Jacking a car
and a brief
Shop tour
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