by Allen Hazen
Umtrr-author has just posted a link to a WWWebsite called "Unlikely PC": there seems to be a lot there! One item is a (pdf format) "PC Diesel Spotter's Guide," published by Robert Reid, the editor/publisher of the magazine "Penn Central Railroader" (which changed its name in 1976 to "Rails Northeast," ceasing publication a few years later: I think it was basically a one-man operation, and Reid had both financial and medical troubles). A booklet, basically one photo per model, with the numbers assigned to units of that model by PC and a minimal amount of other data. (Reid published an updated version a few years later for Conrail's initial roster.) It's at:
http://www.unlikelypcrr.com/page6/Welco ... deReid.pdf
Anyway, I noticed something odd in the entry for GE U23B: the number on the roster as of some date in 1974 is given as 95, PC numbers 2700-2794. My recollection is that 2700-2749 were acquired in 1972 and 2750-2776 the next year: apparently there was a third order the next year, for what would have been 2777-2794, that was cancelled.
http://www.unlikelypcrr.com/page6/Welco ... deReid.pdf
Anyway, I noticed something odd in the entry for GE U23B: the number on the roster as of some date in 1974 is given as 95, PC numbers 2700-2794. My recollection is that 2700-2749 were acquired in 1972 and 2750-2776 the next year: apparently there was a third order the next year, for what would have been 2777-2794, that was cancelled.