[PRCo] Re: A Real Scream.......

[Fred Schneider]

I guess to take advantage of the speed inherent in a PCC it must be a
three man car ... a motorman and a conductor at each door.  I have vivid
memories of the trolleys on Canal Street with an average of 7 cars to
the mile in each direction in the rush hour.  They scheduled 50 cars on
Canal in the rush and had one car left in Canal Station as a spare in
1958.  (For what it's worth, St. Charles at that time used 35 cars and
there was also one spare at Carrollton Station.  The fleet had 88 cars
then, that left one car in the overhaul shop.

I doubt that PCCs would have worked.  The best you could get out of them
in one block was about 25 mph ... the 900s would probably get to 20
mph.  But they spent more than half their time stopped.  Maybe you could
have picked up a minute with a PCC over 3 miles but it would take a lead
foot to do it.

Matt Barry wrote:

> I like it, Ken!  Good work.
>
> Ken & Tracie wrote:
>
> >Pay back for sending 832 to PTM?
> >
> >http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/goofy/htm/goofy114.htm
> >
> >
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