[PRCo] Re: Wheels, Shoes, Bad Wire in Philly & Pittsburgh Catenary

[Boris Cefer]

Are you sure with 1711? Will PTM make large number of holes into its roof?
But if I visit Pgh and Arden in July, then the car is back at PTM.

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> From: "Boris Cefer" <boris6 at volny.cz>
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> > But we are not brain dead and we have understood.
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> I'm happy to know the rest of the list members have enough surplus
> intellectual capacity to meet my weak mind well beyond middle ground.
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> There is no "meetings of the mind" for the likes of me....just visits to
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> mental doorstep by either the curious or perhaps the sympathetic. ;-)
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> I have some pictures of the L-6's TCRT style trolley wheel. Incidently,
the
> TCRT PCCs looked rather interesting with those large wheels.
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> I have a Roberta Hill shot of a Philadelphia trackless trolley as it is
> about to pass through some kinked trolley wire. She took the photo from an
> overpass and aimed the camera right down the trolley. I believe it was
taken
> along Route 75, but I do not recall for sure. I'll have to hunt it up when
I
> look for those scrapping photos you requested. Don't know what happened to
> the wire, but it must have been hard on the shoes until it was repaired.
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> Now to get back on topic. Does Pittsburgh's catenary have those tension
> adjusting weights like San Diego has? I do not recall seeing any when I
was
> there for the PCC Farewell in 1999, but believe it or not, this overhead
> enthusiast wasn't looking for it.
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> K.
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> P.S.- 1711 should be temporarily equipped with a pantograph so PAT can
> reopen the Overbrook line in style!
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