Museum Policy

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Yes, New Orleans does fit the western Pennsylvania blueprint!
Westinghouse Airbrake made the brake system.  Brill the trucks.  General
Electric created the controls and motors.  I don't know who made the
compressor, but it had to come from either East Pittsburgh or Erie PA.
And there were probably 50-50 odds that the steel came from Pittsburgh!
More than 50% of the value of that car came from Pennsylvania.

And of the three cars that came with the museum, M-1 is damaged, 832 was
in horrid shape when it left West Penn (and years of outdoor storage at
Arden didn't help), and 3756 is collapsing like the proverbial one horse
shay.  Maybe you would like to fund major body work on 3756?

pghpcc at pacbell.net wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> Still massive problems with ISP - unable to download email so
> am using an independent source and responding this way as well.
>
> Still, regardless of the practicality, the original revenue PCC
> should still have been saved.  If we were to work on the basis
> of practicality in saving trolleycars, the museums would not
> exist.
>
> Dave Hamley wrote an article for PTMs *Trolley Fare* chiding
> PRMA for various decisions - saving RR equipment when the museum
> was distinctly trolleycar and passing over PCC-100.  When I have
> more time I shall look this article up - it has been mentioned
> here before.
>
> Wasn't the Clark PCC saved?
>
> > "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
> > Car M-11, nee 100, may have
> > been the first PCC to actually hit the streets in revenue >
> service but it would not really have been a good museum > car.
>
> --- Original Message ---
> Kenneth and Tracie Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com> Wrote
> on
> Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:55:02 +0000
>  ------------------
>
> : For example, what would PTM do with a standard gauge car :
> from Oregon if a now deceased founding member had dragged : it
> to Arden in 1955 simply because he liked it and had the
> : political clout to acquire it? It wouldn't fit the PTM : "blueprint"
> (nor its rails), yet it would be a tie to the : Museum's earliest
> days.
>
> And New Orleans 832 does not fit the Western-PA blueprint, either,
> yet it runs continuously.  And of the 3-cars which went to the
> Museum  u-n-d-e-r  t-h-e-i-r  o-w-n  p-o-w-e-r  --  M1, West
> Penn 832, 3756  --  ONLY the latter operates but then not at
> all times.  It seems that equipment outside of Western PA does
> the bulk of operating - New Orleans and Phlipadelphia!!
>
> Jim Holland
>
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