[PRCo] Re: PCC__Handbrakes

[Boris Cefer]

I have an interior view of a 10xx, but it was taken from the from platform.
No help this way :-(

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2005 11:25 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC__Handbrakes


> Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>
>
> > 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.
>
>
>
> Minutia??- :-) :-D -!!        Does your email in CZ read the same,
> Boris??- :-D :-) -!!       This Is Critically Important Information!!
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 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!!!!!!!
>
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>
> Jim__Holland
>
>
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>
> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
>
>