[PRCo] Re: M1276

[Bob Rathke]

Attached is another photo I took of M1276, this one on August 22, 1966.
Was that center section of the plow the attachment point, or was it a door 
that might allow this car to be towed?

Bob 12/29/05

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:15 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: M1276


> My suspicion is that it is mounted on the frame of the car where the
> anticlimber is or was.   There is nothing but relatively thin-gauge
> sheet steel above the anticlimber and that would not  or probably
> would not support the weight of the plow.  (Picture trying to bolt
> the plow to the fender of your car and then pushing snow with it.)
> The anticlimber is bolted into the frame of the car and covers the
> bottom of the dasher sheets and the top of the skirts, which were
> welded to the frame at that point.   You may want to look for some
> detailed pictures to see if they might just not have removed the
> anticlimber and bolted the plow into the same holes, or perhaps added
> more holes into the frame.
>
> I recall hearing comments that it didn't last long because it tended
> to derail.    Perhaps those who thought it was prone to derail were
> measuring this tendency against a Pressed Steel 1911 motor car
> weighing considerably more.
>
> Make sense???


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