[PRCo] Re: JTC___TrolleyCars__&__Trolleycoaches__-- (NOTE Subject Line Change)

[Fred Schneider]

I also have pictures of cars running on TC overhead on the Franklin line.  Point to be made here is that only Horner Street had trolley coaches at the same time as streetcars on the rest of the system, and therefore it was the only one I mentioned.  All of the other routes were converted from rail to TC in 1960, and the positive wire was initially the old streetcar wire.   I'll repeat,
therefore, that I have no evidence that Johnstown ran trolleys and trackless on the same wires (at the same time).   Of course I don't have pictures of cars in every single block ... only a one inch folder of 8x10s.

"James B. Holland" wrote:

> Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> >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).
> >
>              Pictures of some of the PCCs at the outer ends of the lines
> on JTC show that both TrolleyCars and trolleycoaches shared the
> wire.     This was  probably  just before conversion to trolleycoach.
>
> Jim Holland