[PRCo] Re: PTM___Red--Arrow___14

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to all

Did Johnstown start using shoes after their first ETB Line..Horner Street?
Was their common wire..PCC and ETB?

Harold

rogertrolley.1 at juno.com wrote:

>It alway seemed to me a real mystery as to why PRC used wheels,when idustrywide most all companys used shoes so as to not wear out the overhead and to libricate it with carbon inserts. Johnstown used shoes and Pittsburgh didn't. Back in 1958 it seemed an achronism that it was that way,whereas you would think the big city would be far more modernistic than the small burg like Johnstown would have been !!!  cheers rogertrolley
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