[PRCo] Re: ({[pat]}) Paint Schemes --- And Other Oddities

Fred W. Schneider III fschnei at supernet.com
Tue May 29 09:14:30 EDT 2001


You want to make a trip to the PTM library and study the Dengler
negatives ... he photographed almost every active car after 1940. 
Unfortunately, you get only right 7/8ths front views.  I don't think
Charlie ever took a left side or rear end picture!  

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> > John F Bromley wrote:
> 
> > Hey Jim,
> 
> > Thanks for taking the time.  I'll go through and pick up some extra data,
> > I'm sure, and incorporate it into the first draft.
> 
>         Next list we can work on, John, is mechanical//electrical oddities.
> 
>         Which PCC car sported 4-springs vertically on
>                 the trolley-pole base?
> 
>         Which low-floor cars had vertical spring trolley pole bases??
>                 Saw one in the North--Side video; did you spot that?<G>
> 
>         Which cars had a combination of the  *one--nut*  resilient
>                 wheel and multiple--bolt resilient, Not
>                 Super-Resilient, even on one truck??
> 
>         Which cars were delivered with the multiple--bolt standard
>                 resilient wheels?
> 
> --
> James B. Holland
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