[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs.......What? No Blinker Doors?

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

Folding doors required to provide width for wheelchair
access.  An FTA/ADA requirement.

San Francisco will probably put in back up controls as well.

We had front poles on our double end 1600 experiments in the 1970's.
Never hurt the cars appearances.

Nice to see these cars used.  They are not original 1700 car bodies.
Lots of other changes.

Harold Geissenheimer

Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> "Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:
>
> > Hi, gang!
> > Great news!
> > Tonight at the MSR meeting I learned that Muni was the successful bidder on
> > an Internet auction where two retired Pittsburgh PCCs, 4008 and 4009 were
> > being auctioned.  Muni paid the winning bid of $10,000 each.
>
> Folding doors on 4000s......ugh. And I suppose they will have to install a front
> trolley pole to further ruin the lines of the cars.......Jim, why can't your
> coworkers wye a car without destroying the pole? :-) Or is there some obscure
> ordinance that requires all non-pantograph cars to have two poles? ;-)
>
> Ken J.