[PRCo] PCC Maintenance Comparisons

[ktjosephson at earthlink.net]

Harre was a journalist, you were a motorman. I would certainly take your
word over his, since you lived it and it was just his hobby. I also noticed
(after looking at over 10,000 photos from just Roberta Hill) that bent poles
seemed to be very rare on both PRCo and PAT PCCs. Ms. Hill took photos in
the Steel City between 1962 and 1974, sometimes visiting for a month or two
at a time.

And even if Mr. Demoro was partial to San Francisco, that is no excuse for
denying anything was wrong. Many hardcore Pittsburgh fans of all  system
aspects and eras will readily admit, and some even wax nostalgic, over the
shortcomings.

No need for the "Hmmmmmmmmm". I wasn't giving any factual credibility to Mr.
Demoro's opinion, just noting it was out there and that in-the-know Muni
employees and riders may be confronted with it. And we all know, if
something makes it to print, it can become the "gospel truth" to some
people. Just the usual poor sentence structure on my part.

In any event, the troubles that seemed to plague the Boeing-Vertol cars made
a number of S.F. residents miss those PCCs, regardless of their condition.
:-)

K.

P.S.- Maybe a trip up to South Lake Tahoe, that Muni PCC graveyard right
here in Nevada, would allow us to investigate and you could point out and
document the various flaws evident. Some of those cars haven't been touched
since retirement, though I heard somebody attempted to butcher an ex-St.
Louis 1700 into a double ended car. :-/