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

[Kenneth Josephson]

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

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

I understand.

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

I remember those. Taste is subjective. I prefer single ended PCCs without front poles.
Plus it's fun to razz Jim Holland! ;-)  (Oh-oh....I'm in for it now!)

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

The front seats are arranged like Pittsburgh air cars, there are flourescent lights, a
different dash layout, different gongs, pilots, etc. Plus weren't the trucks in part,
French castings?

Let's see, one to PTM, two to San Francisco, one to Bethel Park and one at South Hills
Village. Is that the correct disposition of the last five 4000s?

Ken J.