No wood cars in Penn Station?

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Hello, Jim -

I'll play the dummy and ask how steel cars are related to Penn
Station. I'm going to -guess- that wooden cars were prohibited because
of the fire hazard in such an enclosed space. Is this the case?

- Marty Swartz

[Jim Nichols said:]

> Supplemental information: Dad’s records show them as 1000 and 1001, class RC, and 1002-1005 as class RD, built Pullman 1910 and purchased from the Pennsylvania. The mystery is: how long did PRR own them, since N&W bought them the same year they were built? .... In any event, PRR was buying steel cars because of the new Penn Station in New York, so were happy to unload these almost new wood cars.      Jim Nichols