[PRCo] Re: Philly GOH vs Purchase of Ex--European PCCs

[John Swindler]

Maybe they don't know where - or what - is Brussels. (must be some place in 
Jersey?)

I didn't say that either.

John

>From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'"  
><pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Philly  GOH  vs  Purchase  of  Ex--European  PCCs
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 07:32:47 -0400
>
>
>Maybe nobody in Philly knows what a "tram" is.
>
>I didn't say that!!!
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From: 	Jim Holland [mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net]
>
> > Greg King wrote:
>
> > I know this might be heresy, but I wonder why Philly never approached
> > Brussels to purchase some of there excess PCC's
>
>Jim's reply:
>After reading John's thesis on PRCo history and the hell-bent
>	attitude to get rid of trolleycars  AND
>		knowing that Philly was going thru something similar,
>			it might be summed up that::
>
>		Pennsylvania did not want trolleycars.
>
>	Philly tried very hard to get rid of all of them as did Pgh.  --  so
>why look abroad for replacements.
>
>	And when forced into keeping something rail, it is not in vogue to
>use
>something old fashioned like PCCs.  It was rumored that Bombardier
>considered offering an updated PCC but thought it might not fly.  (The
>boeings certainly never did  --  fly!)
>
>	In reality, lrvs are updated PCCs.  The trucks still use motors,
>disc--(drum)--brakes, magnetic brakes, air suspension of Boeing and
>Canadian cars make the trucks similar to PCC--B3s, all lrvs have bodies,
>and they all have some form of modernized propulsion!
>Over--simplification, but a point can be made.
>
>	The PCC books list the PCC as evolutionary  --  a more detailed look
>at
>the lrv will find it even more evolutionary than the PCC.  The PCC stood
>out markedly from its predecessors  --  less so the lrv specifically
>because of the trucks!
>
>--
>James B. Holland
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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>

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