Car 1782

[Fred Schneider]

I have numbers of cars that barns could accommodate but it is not broken
down by inside/outside storage.  I suspect most of Keating's inside space
was used for maintenance ... there were only a few inside tracks.  Craft, on
the other hand, was almost all covered storage.  

-----Original Message-----
From: John Swindler [mailto:j_swindler at hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 2:50 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: Re: Car 1782


What percentage of their cars could Keating store indoors?  How does that 
compare with other car barns?  And what about route structure and exposure 
to congested auto traffic?


>From: Kenneth and Tracie Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Car 1782
>Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 10:46:52 +0000
>
>It reached 65 degrees in Las Vegas yesterday. In an effort to empathize
>with my fellow list members still living in the Mid Atlantic or
>Northeast regions, I went through my Pittsburgh photo collection to look
>at some snow shots.
>
>I found a nice shot of car 1782 on Route 10. The date was February
>9,1964. Snow everywhere. The car no longer had its dash lights, but
>still sported its "white face" and headlight wings. I also noticed the
>motorman's dash vent was sealed with what appeared to common duct tape.
>
>Shots of cars on Routes 8, 10, 15 & 21 makes it appear as if the cars
>stationed at Keating remained in better condition bodywise than their
>counterparts at other car houses. Perhaps the cars serving other parts
>of the system had to contend with heavier traffic and/or more narrow
>streets. Oe perhaps the Westinghouse equipped cars gave off a  magnetic
>field which drew objects such automobiles, trucks, etc. into their
>paths, causing collisions. :-D
>
>Ken J.

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