[PRCo] Climbing__On__Equipment

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> Fred Schneider wrote:

> ....... I remember watching a motorman climb on
> the roof of a PCC on Liberty Avenue near 7th St.,
> untangle the pole from all the overhead wires,
> hook it down, then retie both ends of the broken
> rope together, put the pole on the wire,

	Been There, Done That  Multiples  of times in SF,  PCCs and
TCs but not lrvs, and quite often for a rookie who got himself
hung up and to prevent him getting into trouble.    We are Not
to go on the roof but it is done.    Even Done Did it in the
Very Presence of a Line Inspector.    Middle of rush hour,
downtown, another pole hung up so when I arrived I didn't ask
permission  --  just did it!    And as one of my very fine
passengers states in every other breath:::::::    """And On We
GO!!!"""

> restore the ladder to the battery box, and
> be on his way.

	You mean  *Under*  the Battery box in the rear of the car 
--  ladder might short out battery terminals!

	ALL our equipment has the stairs up the side ala the PRCo
1700s.

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Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
	with the similar tantalisation that something,
		sometime, somehow, will turn up. 
			George Courtauld

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James B. Holland

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