[PRCo] Re: LRVs out of service this morning; Remaining PCCs return to the rails

[John Swindler]

Looks like you were working overtime, Derrick, on April Fools Day.


>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] LRVs out of service this morning; Remaining PCCs return to 
>the rails
>Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 04:09:20 -0400
>
>
>It's my understanding that due to serious flaws uncovered in one of the
>major subsystems of the LRVs that the Port Authority will be operating a
>reduced schedule today, and that said schedule will be operated entirely
>with the few remaining PCCs which have not yet been removed from the
>property. Details are still sketchy and it remains to be seen what will
>happen Monday morning, as the PCCs on hand don't even come close to
>providing the necessary capacity for weekday schedules; I assume they'll be
>making emergency repairs to the LRVs to get them back in service as soon as
>possible. So, if you can, you need to get to Pittsburgh NOW NOW NOW and get
>your pictures of the PCCs since this may finally be the last time they run
>in revenue service in the city. I'll try to get some pictures and share
>them for those of you who can't get here in time. I guess I should get to
>sleep now, since it's like 4am, and I was hoping to be up and taking
>pictures for the first run of the morning, whenever that is.
>
>-D
>
>

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