[PRCo] Re: West Penn

[HRBran99 at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/10/02 12:29:29 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net writes:


> 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

Correct, they would have had no air systems being All-Electric cars. The 
braking system would have been spring applied/electrically released, as were 
the Pittsburgh all-electric (original numbered) 1700s. Of some interest is 
the fact that the Boston all-electrics were Pullman-Standards first such 
cars. They were delivered to Boston in 1946. They were about the only Boston 
PCCs not equipped for multiple unit operation.

HrB