[PRCo] Re: Maintenance

[Boris Cefer]

OK. It was a 1200 scheduled for Library. Not uncommon in earlier days. What
did the motorman?

B
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 5:31 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Maintenance


> Not a very good what if, Boris.   They had two headlights.   And dash
> lights.   And interior lights.   And if the motorman doesn't know
> where the railroad is, he doesn't deserve to run on it.
>
> On Dec 2, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>
> > 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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