<HTML><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 11/11/00 1:39:29 PM Eastern Standard Time, <BR>pghpcc@pacbell.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Five-mph is almost a dead stop - I believe it was rather common for
<BR>PRCo to be hitting these at 10-15-mph - but could see that going fast
<BR>might be a potential problem.
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<BR>SIGNAL PROBLEMS:
<BR>PATransit (using the same rules as PRCo. -- the rule books are almost exactly <BR>the same language) allowed 5 MPH only over a Facing Point Switch. This was a <BR>speed designed to allow the operator to stop the car before going over the <BR>facing point switch if it had not lined up properly. To operate a PCC car, <BR>loaded with passengers, at any higher speed over a facing point switch is <BR>only tempting fate. Sooner or later an accident will occur to those who <BR>flaunt such safety rules. Pages 59 and 60 of the PATransit, "Important <BR>Orders," 1973 (my copy issued to me when operating PCCs is 00138) states 5 <BR>MPH over facing point. It states not more than 10 MPH when leaving single <BR>track into double track, and goes on to say operators must consume not less <BR>than 10 seconds between the time the car passes the Head Block and the time <BR>it passes the Directional Indicator.
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<BR><<Pittsburgh Railways Co. didn't have the same problems with Natchod signals
<BR>> actuated by trolley wire contactors,;>>
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<BR>Do you remember my post about the high winds causing the Nachod signals to <BR>change on New Arlington Avenue one night? Maybe when the cars were operated <BR>by PRCo., the contactors had not aged enough. By the time PATransit was <BR>running things, there were problems with trolley wire contactors. These were <BR>the type Jim describes as being about 2 feet long with the contactors to the <BR>side of the trolley wire.
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<BR>SAND ON RAILS:
<BR>All of page 63 of the rule book talks about the cars equipped with "Rail <BR>Cleaning Track Brakes." It lists cars 1700, 1704, 1706, 1723, and 1724 as <BR>being equipped with the special. Also goes on to tell more about when, why <BR>and how to use them.
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<BR>Page 54 deals with how to use the sanders on single track sections controlled <BR>by APB Track Circuit Signals.
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<BR>In order to keep this post short I will not quote those passages here. If <BR>anyone really is interested in what they say, contact me off list.
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<BR>Herb Brannon
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