[PRCo] Re: "Johnstown" trolley at Kenosha

[Fred Schneider]

Just a few.  Kenosha only has three cars and they were all rebuilt TTC 4400s.   I think all of them have the advance car light.

When I saw the system I was picking up on minor maintenance issues such as rotting wooden doors.  Such minor things could be indicative of major problems to come, especially when you have a one-man shop and only three cars.  You cannot rebuild a truck with
one man ... two minimum.  A spare ratio of 10% was standard in the old days ... some companies had fewer than 5% spare cars.  Today 20% to 25% is more or less normal.   But those numbers simply don't work when you have a vest pocket system.   If you only
have three vehicles and you are overhauling one, which could take a year, and one fails, you are down to one car and prayer.  (Sorry for those who are offended by prayer.)  Thus a one-car system like Kenosha may need three spares.   Tacoma Washington is
running two cars and has one spare ... the cars are new now but they will age.

hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:

> Do all the Kenosha cars have the TTC advance light or just a few? If only some cars have the advance light, they may have come from other transit systems in the US. I would like to know if this or any of the Kenosha cars were ex-Cleveland Transit cars.
> HrB
>
> ---- Mark McGuire <macmarka at netzero.net> wrote:
> >
> >   Thanks for the photos Bob! Someone needs to place a giant Pepsi
> > logo on the front of the car. ;>)
> >