Pa Trolleys Vol 3 -- PRCo -- WP -- JTC

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Jim Holland wrote:

>         06)--   Page 83, top, the back of PCC 100, . . .
> Notice the trolley *catcher*
> centered above the rear windows.  This is how all PRCo PCCs were
> delivered except the 1700 series interurbans which had an Earll retriever
> mounted below the windows to the right of center.

	In the early 1960s, PRCo moved the trolley catcher below and to the 
right of the windows on the 1700 class city cars.  And as retrievers failed 
on the interurbans, they were replaced with catchers as well.  1709 or 1721 
were one of the last, if not the last, of the PCC interurbans to sport a 
retriever.
	They didn't do this for the 16s and other air cars because the whole 
rear of the car is at an 11 degree angle which would require a bracket to 
mount the catcher vertically.  On the 1700 series cars, the back below the 
windows is perfectly vertical.

-- 
James B. Holland
       PITTSBURGH RAILWAYS COMPANY (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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