[PRCo] Re: PCC Multiple Units

[tsquare at toad.net]

Weren't the 3750's essentially copies of the 5200's.  I thought that
this had been discussed previously.

Seems to me that there was an enlarged (maybe 4' x 6') photograph of
a 2-car train of 3750's in a super-market in Charleroi until about
four years ago - the photo is gone now.

Tom


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Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Multiple Units





Jim Holland wrote:
>
> > Kenneth Josephson wrote:
>
> > Incidently, another late nighter who doesn't belong to this list wants
to
> > know why PRCo never equipped some of their PCCs for M.U. operation.
(Yes,
> > he's a TTC fan.) Was multiple unit operation with PCCs ever considered
> > other than Mr. Swift's back to back plan of the 1960s?  Ken J.
>
>         Probably  NOT.  The Brill and St.-Louis interurbans had couplers,
but
> didn't operate MU.  The  3750--3769  series low floors were built for
> Charleroi, were built for MU, and were absolutely disliked in MU
> operation by both passengers and crews!

What is your evidence that the 3750s were ever run in trains?

  Some of the low-floors were
> intended for MU operation and that was actually done until the 1937,
> even in the South Hills.  See photo bottom of pg.11 in PRMA  *Streetcars
> in the Golden Triangle, 1859--1985.*
>
>         Passenger density is not as great as Toronto!  It is more
advantageous
> to have more frequent single cars than less frequent MUed cars!
>
>         AND  PRCo actually ran PCC cars back to back between Castle
Shannon and
> South Hills Junction during dismantling of an overpass near Linden
> Grove.  I copied that out of a past  *Trolley--Fare*  and posted it
> right on this list!!
>
>         Those pain pills have affected you, yes?!?!
>
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