[PRCo] Re: PCC Rehabilitation

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 7:58 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Rehabilitation


> In 1966, a friend from Chicago visited Pittsburgh during the last summer
of
> trolleys on the East End Lines, and he commented on the PCC wheel rims he
> saw, saying, "they appear to be the thickness of coffee can tin."

As we all know, many of the1600 and most of the 1700 Westinghouse cars which
were assigned to the East End wound up at Tunnel Carhouse. If their wheels
were that bad, something certainly was done to rectify them.

K.