[PRCo] Re: PRC PCC scuffs...I've Brought This Up Before

Harold Geissenheimer transitmgr at worldnet.att.net
Sat Mar 30 20:05:56 EST 2002


Greetings

YES.  A church is there using the old admin building and then a new building
behind.

About Ingram.   A small car barn or garage will always be in better shape than a
large place.  Better motormen, better mnt staff.  Today on PAT, Harmar garage
is the smallest and probably the best.

Harold Geissenheimer

Kenneth Josephson wrote:

> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
>
> > PRCo assigned PCC cars to divisions by electrical equipment, not rust.
> > After Ingram closed as an operating barn, most of the older cars were moved
> > there for dead storage.  That's where 1138 came from.
>
> I still wonder if *operating* cars based at Ingram suffered less body damage
> than cars based at Tunnel, Keating or the East End carhouses due to less
> traffic density, less trackage climbing up & down winding, narrow urban
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