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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fwschneider@comcast.net href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">Fred
Schneider</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 03, 2014 5:05
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] Plummer Street Car
House</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>I never made any decent photos of what he took that
day. There only one that he took at Plummer St., and that was a
general view of the barn with a 1500 (I think 1562) sticking out. But I
made some mistakes in my day
one was chopping all the 35mm negatives into
singles back then instead of strips of 5 or 6. I
eventually filed them in small books but never made much larger than 2 x 3
prints of most of them and many have disappeared. Once I
began taking pictures with a decent 120 camera (or relatively better camera)
in 1955, I made 8x10s of the good stuff.<BR><BR>Ah
but in 1955 I
photographed only buses on the annual spring visit to Pittsburgh and those
prints all wound up in the Motor Bus Society library.<BR><BR>So, even though I
began taking stuff when I was 13, I really don't have much before 1956 (age
16) in Pittyburg.<BR><BR>Maintenance? Homewood was doing all the
heavy work. Places like Plummer St. only did the light
stuff
light bulbs, brake shoes on the yellow cars, maybe a seat
cushion. I am not sure precisely Ray how it was defined but I can
state that around 1930-1932 (in that period), PRC went to a mileage based
system and once a car reached that interval, it was sent to Homewood for
inspection and replacement of whatever components would fail before the next
inspection. <BR><BR>The barn assignments were done to minimize parts
that they had to stock. I think we all know that Keating,
Manchester, Millvale and Ingram were General Electric PCC barns, Homewood was
mixed because the central parts room as two blocks down the street, and the
others (Glenwood, Tunnel, Plummer, Carrick, Highland, Craft (did I miss
anything) were Westinghouse.<BR><BR>The same technique was used for low floor
cars. MU cars (5000s, 5100s, 5200s) were at Ingram and Homewood,
Charleroi and Tylerdale (and that included some double-end cars with HL
control). Of course things changed over the years and we would have to
pick a point in time. I'm thinking late 1940s and early
1950s. Keating had K-control cars (5500s and 4300s). I think
you see where this is going. You only have to stock control
fingers for one type of car or one type of brake valve in a barn if you divide
up cars that way. But I doubt that any barn would have had spare
motors or pinion gears or bull gears or anything that required jacking up the
car
for that you ran it (or towed it) to Homewood. <BR><BR>But
there is a great picture that Charlie Dengler took of a failure on the
street. You may not have replace a traction motor in the barn but
if it failed on the street, that picture shows that an emergency crew could
jack up a car, drop an axle and motor and change them out and have the line
open again in an hour or thereabouts. <BR><BR><BR><BR>On Sep 3,
2014, at 4:38 PM, rayprco53 wrote:<BR><BR>> Care to share any of your Dad's
photos or elaborate what type of maintenance was conducted at Plummer
CH?<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung
Galaxy SŪ4.<BR>> <BR>> <div>-------- Original message
--------</div><div>From: D Brashear <<A
href="mailto:shadow@dementix.org">shadow@dementix.org</A>>
</div><div>Date:09/03/2014 3:45 PM (GMT-05:00)
</div><div>To: Western PA Trolley discussion <<A
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</A>>
</div><div>Subject: Re: [PRCo] Plummer Street Car House
</div><div><BR>> </div>On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM,
Fred Schneider <<A
href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">fwschneider@comcast.net</A>><BR>>
wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> Jim,<BR>>> <BR>>> The W in Fred W.
Schneider stands for Windy. :<)<BR>>> <BR>>> You
are bringing back memories
. very fond memories Jim. The
week<BR>>> beginning March 28 and ending around April 6th, 1953 was my
spring break<BR>>> from 8th grade. Monday I rode the
interurban to Washington and Tuesday I<BR>>> rode the Charleroi
line. That was back in the days when teenagers knew<BR>>>
what the limits were and could even go into stores unattended without
being<BR>>> evicted. Don't know about your neighborhood, but
I know of some malls<BR>>> today (South Hills Village for example) that
will not let kids under 18 in<BR>>> without a parent or
guardian.<BR>>> <BR>> <BR>> "Those days" included my teen years. I
routinely shopped unattended,<BR>> including at SHV.<BR>> <BR>>>
<BR>>> OK, come Saturday
that would be April 4th, I had documents
from<BR>>> Pittsburgh Railways to let my father and me into both Plummer
Street and<BR>>> Tunnel car houses to take pictures. My
father, being a model builder and<BR>>> an engineer, was more interested
than I was. The shop foeman at Plummer<BR>>> Street was
telling him all about the maintenance practices and he was<BR>>>
enthralled. Me, I was doubled over in pain.<BR>>>
<BR>>> <BR>> Plummer St's Thorofare nee Giant Eagle is currently
being reopened as a<BR>> Busy Beaver home improvement center. Think a
smaller Home Depot/Lowes with<BR>> less stuff (and in some cases, not as
good. they used to be better but they<BR>> are sort of a local discount
home improvement chain). There are banners up<BR>> outside, or were when I
biked past last week.<BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Daria<BR>> <BR>>
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