[PRCo] Re: Tow Job

[Fred Schneider]

Ww have a C J Dengler picture in the museum library that shows a  
truck for a low floor car being rebuilt on the street ... the route  
cards show that they were capable of such feats in not much more than  
an hour.   I'm not sure that they could do the same with a PCC or  
that they would want to in such a congested area.

Many transit companies, both large and small, used dolly wheels on  
which they could rest a truck to tow it back to a maintenance base.    
It wasn't at all unique.   It is both fortunate from the company  
standpoint and unfortunate from the historian's perspective that  
there are few pictures of such happenings.

Something else we should ask Tony Desensi about before he forgets it  
all.


On Dec 1, 2005, at 9:49 AM, raymond at nauticom.net wrote:

> I remember a tow job under PAT mid 1970's when a car (rear truck)  
> derailed
> at the entrance to the Smithfield street bridge Carson St.side.  
> They put
> it back on the rails and when the motorman applied power the truck  
> that
> originally derailed (rear) derailed again. Bent flange I guess. Anyhow
> what they did next I thought was really cool. They jacked up the  
> truck and
> added an axel and small set of wheels to the back of the truck so  
> that the
> rear wheels of the truck where off of the rails and the new smaller  
> wheels
> were now on the rails. The car was then towed buy a maintenance  
> truck back
> through the tunnel to the barn. At least thats how I remember it now.
> Maybe someone else could shed some light on this towing procedure.  
> Wonder
> why they just didnt change the wheel?
>
> Ray
>