[PRCo] Re: Rebuilt SEPTA PCCs

[John F Bromley]

And how would you then convince a rider that had been used to an A/C bus to
ride what would be a sweltermobile?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <Robert.Dietrich at unisys.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:14 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rebuilt SEPTA PCCs


>
> Ok all you purists!  So what do you think SEPTA should call these new
cars?
> "PCCnots"?  If the riding, or not so riding public, recognizes them as PCC
> cars then they will BE PCC cars.  I doubt that ENEPTA will even try to
drive
> off ridership by renaming them.  But then if the public doesn't know a PCC
> car from a Gomaco car then what does it matter.
>
> If they re-designate the cars my vote is "ACC" for Air Conditioned Cars,
or
> is that super glue. . .  By the way are these cars going to be Air
> Conditioned the way our 1700 cars were "air conditioned"?
>
> Bob
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net [mailto:ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:48 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rebuilt SEPTA PCCs
>
>
> A PCC in the books on PCCs is a PCC because of the controls and trucks ,
> not the body !  Even tho the body made it recognizable to the public as
> a PCC . [ ie--something new ]
>
>
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