[PRCo] Re: PRC 1711

[Fred Schneider]

The Pittsburgh interurban tracks were quite acceptable until the decision was
made to abandon the lines.  About 1951 or 1952 the company quit maintaining the
interurban tracks.  By the spring of 1953 track was pretty bad.

Museum track is perfect?  No.  The new track to the East Site is excellent
(except for some sun kinks at the platform where it wasn't ballasted).  I've run
flat out with PST 78 down there and no problems.  But the track up to Arden Mine
hasn't been aligned and tamped in a few years and it is getting pretty grizzly.
I'm known as "Fast Freddy" but even I've slowed up along the creek ... I don't
want to wind up swimming with my streetcar on. Two miles is a lot of track for a
museum crew to maintain, especially when they are also building new track at the
East Site.  It simply cannot all be done as fast as we would like.

I don't think you had a chance to read my last transmittal from Dave Hamley
before you wrote, so what you are questioning about someone at Elmira has been
answered.  I think, however, that the two trucks they were sent were not the
same two that were under the car when it was running a week before it went to
Elmira.  I think we swapped out one for another that had better motors or better
wheels.

Pepa Kalousek wrote: