[PRCo] Re: your mail

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Mon Nov 19 19:42:18 EST 2001


Good Morning!!

> Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> Will these sill be PCC cars?   Not by my book.
> They are now remanufactured rail cars using former SEPTA PCC bodies.
> What do you think.

	And how do we consider the  *-current-*  Council Crest Cars in Portland, OR???   Are they
PCC???   Not by my bookl, either!!!(:->)

>> John Swindler wrote:

>> and the contract went to joint venture of "Brookville Equipment
>> Copr./Pacifica Marine, nc./Mittenwalder Geratebau MGB for remanufacturing of
>> 18 PCC cars needed for the restoration of trolley service on route 15 Girard
>> Ave. at a unit price of $1.2 million."  As for any question concerning
>> whether these will be GE or Westinghouse cars, that's irrelevant.  Will
>> receive new electronics from Kiepe (sp?) (does PTM need any more PCC spare
>> parts??)

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company Trolleycars  &
        "O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
        Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) http://www.pa-trolley.org/
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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