SAND ON RAILS and SIGNAL PROBLEMS

[John Swindler]

How about 1706, 1723, maybe 1703.  Vague recollection of mention by motorman 
in teen years about some cars having "something" for signaling purposes.  
Unfortunately, didn't have enough inquisitiveness to ask right questions.

Sunday cars seemed to tend to be 1700, 1703, 1704, 1706, 1723.

Recollections of others????

Anyone work on the cars????

>From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: SAND ON RAILS and SIGNAL PROBLEMS
>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:50:45 -0500
>
>I very vaguely remember that track brake switch.  Do you remember which 
>cars?  Were
>they used on seven days a week in preference to other cars?
>
>Jim Holland wrote:
>
> > Greetings!
> >
> >         You didn't miss the original message  --  it wasn't posted here!
> >
> >         And the IT messages were on another list as well, not here.
> >
> >         The subject of electrical conductivity with models came up on a 
>list
> > which discusses models and I relayed information that showed that the
> > prototype had conductivity problems as well!
> >
> >         I thus mentioned PRCo and the prohibition on sanding on the 
>interurbans
> > unless an emergency.  Also saw an accident with lrvs in SF where track
> > circuits are used to set turnouts.  An operator sanded the rails and set
> > the turnout correctly but the sand broke the contact and a following
> > truck threw the turnout which caused the rear end of that train to smash
> > into the one beside it and derail.
> >
> >         Some of the PRCo 1700-series interurbans had a switch on the 
>dash to
> > set the trackbrake so it would scrape along the rail and clear it of
> > sand!
> >
> > Fred W. Schneider III wrote:
> >
> > > BECAUSE THE SUBJECT LINE WAS NEVER CHANGED
> > > FROM PHILADELPHIA PCC RETRIEVER ON
> > > SALE ON EBAY, I PROBABLY DELETED
> > > THE INITIAL MESSAGE IN THIS SEQUENCE.  I'VE
> > > ELIMINATED A LOT OF MESSAGES LATELY
> > > ABOUT E-BAY AND ILLINOIS TERMINAL ENGINES
> > > WITHOUT EVEN OPENING THEM.
> >
> > James B. Holland
> >
> >         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
> >     To e-mail privately, please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
> > N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/
>

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