[PRCo] Re: Maintenance

[Boris Cefer]

And WHAT IF a car had failed headlight in deep night on an interurban (say
Library or Drake) where no lighting was along the line?
More WHAT IFs may follow.

B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 10:00 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Maintenance


> An operator would request a car change.   [Then the mechanic would
> find nothing wrong and send the car back out with another
> motorman.... etc., etc., etc.]
>
> Seriously, if a motorman could get to a phone and if his (her) car
> would move, a fresh car would be waiting when he (she) passed the
> barn or a pull in / pull out point.
>
> On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:46 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>
> > Was it possible to see a PCC with a carhouse crew waiting in a loop
> > to make
> > a repair (to fix doors etc.) on an another, regularly scheduled
> > one? There
> > are some sorts of repairs that can be easily done within a couple of
> > minutes. Or did they simply exchange the cars? What was the
> > procedure of
> > fixing / replacing defective cars that could continue with certain
> > service
> > limitations, say propulsion not involved?
> >
> > B
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:01 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Maintenance
> >
> >
> >> Good point.    The only one I remember was a GE 1100 that failed on
> >> Perrysville Avenue and a supervisor's truck was being used to push it
> >> into the wye at Charles Street so the next outbound could push it
> >> back to Keating.   That was 1958.     My memories of PRC were limited
> >> when I was old enough to remember what was happening, i.e. after I
> >> became a teenager.   At that time we went back to Pittsburgh for one
> >> week every Easter during which I roamed all over the city.   My last
> >> year of that was 1958; then I had one week in town on leave from the
> >> army in 1959.   There were also a few isolated periods ... funerals
> >> and the like in 1952 and 1953.   And like Jim points out, I too never
> >> saw car failures.   Paint work was fair but even the yellow cars were
> >> not too bad because there was a rash of painting in the late 1940s.
> >> The real paint collapse came in the early 1960s ... why fix anything
> >> when the politicians are talking about taking your empire away
> >> from you?
> >>
> >> I think it also deserves to be pointed out that when the steel mills
> >> belch out sulfur dioxide in smoke, that turns to dilute sulfuric acid
> >> in rain.   The environment was not exactly conducive to keeping
> >> things looking nice.
> >
> >
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