[PRCo] Re: PCC__Handbrakes

[James B. Holland]

Wellllllllllll  --  donut se an URL attached!!!!!!!

Jim


Boris Cefer wrote:

> We have an interior view of 10xx.
>
> B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 5:46 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC__Handbrakes
>
>
>> I don't think we have an interior view of a 10. We have one of car 
>> 100, with the automotive-type handle-sticking-out-of-the-floor, and 
>> of course we have the actual thing in 1138. Someone who is more into 
>> minutiae than I will have to answer this one.
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of James
>> B. Holland
>> Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 12:40 AM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC__Handbrakes
>>
>>
>> Hi Ed!
>>
>>
>> Does it then follow that all the 10s and 11s have a wheel handbrake?
>>
>> The 12s did have *opposite--working* friction brakes from most 
>> Air-Cars -- friction brakes on 12s spring applied so hand brake not 
>> needed to hold dead car.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>>
>>> Our 1138 has the wheel; air cars 1400 and higher had the water 
>>> pump.       1200s didn't have a hand brake, did they?
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Boris
>>> Cefer
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:16 AM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC__Handbrakes
>>>
>>>
>>> 1440 at Seashore has the "water pump" hand brake lever.
>>>
>>> B
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>>> To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 12:02 PM
>>> Subject: [PRCo] PCC__Handbrakes
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Don't remember wheel to operate hand brake -- remember lever.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> CRVLKOTULA at aol.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Interesting.......I remember seeing one of these hand brake wheels 
>>>>> on a Washington PCC from the 1938 group. ....A good view of the 
>>>>> hand brake wheel is illustrated in Fred Schneider's PCC book, The 
>>>>> Car That Fought Back, on page 142, as it appears on a 1938 
>>>>> Philadelphia PCC.
>>>>
>>>>> Dick Kotulak
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Richard!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Pg.159 shows PRCo 100 in top left photo with handbrake lever but 
>>>> what I really remember is the lever like on MBTA 3275 on the top 
>>>> right! Don't remember any wheel handbrakes but they apparently 
>>>> lasted into my era. It is *possible* PRCo changed them to levers 
>>>> but do not know that for sure.
>>>>
>>>> I rode in 100 several times but don't remember anything about that 
>>>> lever -- just the inverted controller and how HOT it got!
>>>
>>
>> Jim__Holland
>>
>>
>> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>>
>> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
>


Jim__Holland


I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!

down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!