[PRCo] Re: "Johnstown" trolley at Kenosha

[John Swindler]

Try five cars for Kenosha.

John



>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: "Johnstown" trolley at Kenosha
>Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 15:36:06 -0400
>
>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. ;>)
> > >
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