Maintenance Pittsburgh Style

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

>> kjosephson at sprintmail.com writes:

>> The bodywork of the "light rail" fronts installed on the two
>> wrecked 1600s and what was need to make it work would also be an
>> interesting topic

> HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:

> I thought this was going to be "state
> of the art."

	It was!  "State of the Art" of St.-Louis Car Company!

> Well, let me tell you! All in all, it was still an old 1600
> series
> air/electric.

	Wouldn't want anything else!

> The operation was not improved as it was still the original equipment,

	Hip-Hip-Hooray!!  --  Can't improve upon St.-Louis Car.
	I  LIKE  the  PCCs  just the way they were!

> It was no
> longer
> tapered like the other PCC's

	It was tapered the same as the other 1600-series PCCs but rather than
having a rounded edge between the side and *Round-Front* it was an
oblique angle.  Additionally, the sides had to come forward a little
further to compensate for the difference between a  *Round-Front*  and 
*Flat--Front!*

> They rode like any other 1600,

	Fantastic - wouldn't want them any other way!

> All in all they were a compliment to the shop staff at SHJct for being
> able
> to rebuild these and all the other cars they rebuilt. However, they
> were
> nothing really that new.

	I never thought of them as anything more than a 16 with a flat front. 
I knew the running gear, the electrical gear, etc. were still orig
equipment  --  and I am  e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y  Thankful for that!!

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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