PAT Snow Removal, PCC Work Cars and M-134

[John Swindler]

It was the "paint car".  Painted clearance lines on the street which, given 
Pittsburgh's street widths, was intended to "hint" to both motorists and 
carmen whether an auto was parked sufficiently away from the tracks.

John


>From: Kenneth Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: PAT Snow Removal, PCC Work Cars and M-134
>Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:05:20 -0800
>
>
>
>"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
>
> > I was being facetious.  Actually, there are some blades attached under a
> > handful of 4100s.  I'm not sure how well they work, but suppose they'd 
>be OK
> > under constant service in a storm.
>
>I hope it works better than M-1276 did. :-) Or was it M-1267? It seems 
>Boston is
>the only operator to successfully use PCCs as work cars. I keep hearing 
>horror
>stories about how poorly the TTC ex-Cleveland cars performed as rail 
>grinders. I
>believe CTA has some PCC (6000 series) cars converted to work duty.
>
>And speaking of work cars, what was M-134's assigned duties besides sitting 
>next
>to the carbarn with its drooping front platform giving it the appeareanceof
>shameful puppy dog?  Ken J.
>

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