[PRCo] Re: PCC in Holland

[Greg King]

Hi,

The Hague, has a number of PCC's in reserve, all their cars have large
windows and are similar to the Boston picture window cars but very narrow.

The artics you saw and, ideed the PCC's were built by BN (now part of
Bombardier) in Belguim not by Tatra. In fact, the trucks and electrical
equipment of the first batch of artics were in fact from scrapped PCC's,
just goes to prove you can't where em out. You are right about it being a
delightful system, they also had "drone PCC's" which were permenant second
power cars which had two rear ends! The front rear end had a small
controller for shunting.

Cheers
Greg
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 2:38 PM
Subject: [PRCo] PCC in Holland


>
> I was in The Hauge this week (they still have an extensive streetcar
system)
> and a PCC went by.... it was called the "Party Trolley" or "Party Tram"
and
> done up in a triple treat/Mod desire kind of scheme.  This one must have
been
> a special charter streetcar as all the other streetcars I saw were three
unit
> Tatras.  It looked remarkably unmolested except for the pantograph - a
stock
> post war all-electric.
>
> Those of you missing Pittsburgh Railways system may find Holland's
strangely
> familiar, except for the Tatras.  Unlike the Light Rail system, they seem
to
> feel that a little grass between the rails adds to the charm (in fact, in
the
> private right of ways its nothing but grass and rails) and the line poles
are
> relatively small, painted olive which blends into the surroundings.
minimal
> overhead clutter. nice.
>
>