[PRCo] Re: Run numbers

[Boris Cefer]

First, the problem is that the individual who reported the lost wheel did
that some 10 - 20 minutes after seeing it (it was in e.g. in 1954 and had
diffuculty to find a phone) and the motorman was not aware of that problem.
Once we experienced a car running without a wheel on its front axle and the
motorman did not believe people saying she had lost one wheel. After several
miles at a loof she left her seat and found wheel was really missing!!!
Second, the individual did not know the actual time when he saw the car, so
there was a difficulty to guess where the car was "now".
Third, the individual did not see the route number and he only knew it was
on Grant st. outbound.

A nice school exercise? Yes :-D)))

How it works in Ostrava: These days everything is in computers, but in
addition to that, each carhouse has a sheet with shift assignments of all
its motormen (there are two carhouses in Ova), which is always made several
days in advance and assignments are displayed also for several days in
advance. This allows to find which motorman is assigned to which block.

Each carhouse has (directly in the car storage building) a big blackboard
with a scheme of the facility. Each car has its own plate with a number. If
the car is laying at the carhouse, the plate with its number is hanging on
the blackboard, showing the actual location in the building. If a plate with
a block number is hanging below the number of the car, the car is assigned
to that block. Of course, it is also in computers, but years ago it was only
in a book at the carhouse and in the central control office.

There are no motormen interchanges outside the carhouse, except regular
interchanges between morning and afternoon shifts at noon time (+/-).

This is quite a simple system which always allowed to find the actual
location according the schedule within several seconds. And there are radio
stations on all cars, so there is no problem to make a general request.

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 5:51 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Run numbers


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> That's a different problem.  Would suspect supervisor would go to site of
> reported lost wheel/accident/derailment (or what have you) and at that
point
> would learn car's identity.  But this is just a wild guess.
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> How would this be handled in Ostrava??  And how are operator's runs
assigned
> in Ostrava???
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> John
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> >From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >Subject: [PRCo] Re: Run numbers
> >Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 19:22:29 +0200
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> >Why? What if somebody (an external witness) reported a lost wheel on car
> >1202 and the supervisor wanted to find and stop the car?
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> >Boris
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> >To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 7:06 PM
> >Subject: [PRCo] Re: Run numbers
> > > Why would the supervisor know that he would be looking for car 1202???
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