[PRCo] Re: Self-Motivated PCC cars

[Jim Holland]

> HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:

> . . . [if] a car had to be
> left unattended the reverser handle should have been placed in the 'locked'
> or forward position and removed to prevent moving of the car. Again, sounds
> like urban legend to me. If it did happen, the operator most likely was
> unemployed after that.

	In all my travellings on PRCo, I can't remember a car without an
operator in it.  *One--time*  on Library the operator had to use the
rest room and he did exactly as you mentioned  --  put the reverser into
the forward position, removed it, and took it with him!
	One time on  ({[pat]})  --  and Paul may have been there at the time 
--  the 49-line was operating to SHJ and looping at Palm Garden.  The
motorman brought the car back to SHJ  --  1600-series city car  --  and
made the turn onto the outbound 44-48.  He allowed us to board and then
the operator left.  We were sitting in the back.  There was a loud bang
and when the motorman returned he blamed us for fooling with his car -
the hand brake had apparently released.  We never touched the car but he
repeatedly accused us!
	The time frame was probably the late 1960s, very early 1970s.

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James B. Holland
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