[PRCo] Re: West Penn

[ROGER Jenkins]

Well  Fred you are probably more right than I on all that you wrote . Of
course the CERA also wrote that a general recession occured in Fayette
County which also played heck with the West Penn ridership . 
       They did modernize their equipment by one-manning the cars and
installing front right doors to make it work . The track locations did
not help them in the cities but they could not afford to change anything
. The video scenes of cars leaving and arriving at  Connellsville was an
eye opener to me to see autos moving over to the opposite side of the
street to let a car come out on the wrong side of it . Todays drivers
probably wouldnt do that , considering the mentality of some of them.   
    
A TAN question . In that  Mike's Rail Photos web site , after looking at
PRCo slides I went to his Boston slides and he makes a statement about
the Boston ALL-ELECTRIC PCCs  #3197-3221  that they had [   air
operated  spring release drum brakes on the motor shaft ] As far as I
knew they had no air anything ,right !