[PRCo] Re: PTM___Red--Arrow___14

[Fred Schneider]

I have two pictures showing that the trolley coach wires were not in common with streetcar wire both on Central Avenue, Moxham, and on Main St., Johnstown.   Shoes may have had something to do with tracking at insulated crossovers.  I don't know if shes are identical on trolley coaches, but we know the harps are vastly different (TC's use swivel harps just like trolley cars in Britain).

I have no pictures of cars in service with wheels in Johnstown after the summer of 1951.  Horner St. conversion was November 1951 if memory serves.  There were, however, some cars scrapped in 1957 with wheels but they had long been in dead storage at Coopersdale carbarn.  .

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> Greetings to all
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> Did Johnstown start using shoes after their first ETB Line..Horner Street?
> Was their common wire..PCC and ETB?
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> Harold
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> >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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