[PRCo] Re: PCC Rehabilitation

[Bob Rathke]

I think the rimless 1966 East End cars were 1500's.

Bob 5/26/04

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC Rehabilitation


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> 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
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> > 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.
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