[PRCo] Re: "Runaway PCC Crashes at Station Square" --- Revisited

[Fred W. Schneider III]

And now you understand what there are so many curmudgeons viewing this
industry!

Deteriorated wiring could also be an issue with cars of that age.  They
were built with cloth / paper insulation.  Toronto Transit Commission
rewired (or scrapped) cars after 30 years.  PATCO rewired the original
1969 Budd cars beginning in the 1980s.  

Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> 
> Let me see if I have this straight:
> 
> 1727's braked failed, not because of deteriorated wiring or some other old age
> factor, but because some idiot did not route an electrical cable correctly?
> 
> So an entire class of streetcars was retired because of a mechanic's screw up?
> 
> Is the moron the shop foreman now?  Or is he in charge of designing the new light
> rail cars? Or perhaps Port Authority president?
> 
> Ken J.