[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Fri Sep 21 05:29:46 EDT 2001


Good Morning!!

> Charles Brown wrote:

> Glad to hear that the PCC's are headed west.  Any idea of what paint
> scheme they'll be put in?

	I hope they do  NOT  paint a  ({[pat]})  car in PRCo colors!!

> For what it's worth, I rode the J line in San Francisco a little bit
> back in the '70's.  At the 30th & Church wye, I never saw them change
> poles and rarely did they use the back-up controls.  The motorman would
> just stay in his seat and backpole thru the switches.

	The very last sentence of my previous post on the subject read::
"The wyes at Broad and Plymouth and Church//30th were backpoled."

	N--E--V--E--R   saw anyone back up here from the front seat!!

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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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