[PRCo] Re: How 'bout Philadephia (and Pittsburgh) from Thirty Years Ago?

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 ktjosephson at earthlink.net wrote:

> It was also the weekend of our first ride in a 1700, five years after a
> brief winter ride in 1614. It was rather warm that weekend. My mother, who
> grew up riding in Birneys, double truck deck roof cars and more
> "conventional" PCCs elsewhere, and my father, who also had grown up riding
> "normal" streetcars, i.e., with opening windows, weren't exactly thrilled
> about the sealed windows and "roaring" fans.

While riding 1711 Sunday night we discussed the fans. Someone (can't 
remember who) suggested the fan speed had been linked to a 21 step 
thermostat.

These days seems like it's on, or off, and I think someone answered that 
also, but I just can't absorb as fast as I used to.