PURE Fantasy -- PRCo 1800s -- Modelers License -- WHATIF......?????--!-!-!-!-!-!-!

[Kenneth Josephson]

Jim Holland wrote:

>         Pittsburgh experimented with TCs twice - once with Twins just before
> PCCs using a loop along Smithfield, Liberty, Grant, and 7th.  They only
> needed to string a ground wire for the test.
>         The other time was a San Francisco TC at the Westinghouse plant in
> E.Pgh with an off street wye and some street running as well.  Wire had
> to be specially strung for this.
>         Have photos of both operations.

Would you consider sharing them with Dr. DeArmond for his site?

>
>         While TCs might have been considered for the West End, and with little
> interest in TC models, just don't know how far this would go!

I understand...especially since you have to drive them for a living. I remember a
column in Traction and Models in which the writer, a hardcore traction fan, landed
a motorman position on the Red Arrow Sharon Hill line. He lamented about how it
became another daily grind after the novelty wore off.