[PRCo] Re: Maintenance

[Bill Robb]

I generally remember PCC cars as being very reliable
and breakdowns were rare.  Breakdowns and mishaps like
split switches became a little more obivous when
systems were replacing old equipment with new
equipment and maintenance was cut back or when the
decision to rebuild a fleet was pending.  

The one general exception would be during heavy snow
storms when all hell could break out, anything from
broken trolley poles to derailed sweepers.  But that
was rare and storms like those would shutdown a whole
city.

Bill Robb

--- "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:

> .
> I do Not remember tow jobs in PRCo days  --  Maybe
> One  --  (Doesn't 
> mean they Didn't happen)    ----    but I do
> remember such under  
> ({[pat.]})       Do remember some PRCo cars being
> dead headed to the 
> barn for maintenance  --  torque arm front truck,
> right side snapped  
> --  trolley poles damaged and replaced would be sent
> in out of service 
> to have them trued up officially so the wheel would
> sit square on the 
> overhead  --  equipment Moved in PRCo days with only
> traffic causing 
> delays.       It would be quite unusual for a PRCo
> problem to cause delays.
> .
> The biggest PRCo delay I remember is when the car
> derailed at Bon Air 
> outbound one Sunday early 1960s, Mother's Day  -- 
> caused a 
> reroute.       But PRCo handled this extremely well 
> --  I watched the 
> shenanigans at the derailed car for a bit but
> recognized I wasn't  
> *-riding-*  so walked back to SHJ where I caught a
> Drake car to 
> substitute for the derailed one that had already
> been sent around 
> downtown!!       We traveled the 38 to 38A then on
> to Drake  --  same 
> motorman as 1645(?) which was in the cornfield meet
> with 1261 on 38A 
> some time late 1963 or a little later.
> .
> .
> .
> 
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >>
> >>
> >>> The LA cars preserved at Perris testify to very
> impressive 
> >>> maintenance practices. At least when LARy or
> LATL people ran wires 
> >>> under the cars, they ran them in flexible metal
> housings (I'm not 
> >>> sure of the proper name). Nothing was ever run
> unprotected........
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Fred Schneider"
> <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >>>>
> >>>>> We do know a lot about it. For example, all of
> the car record 
> >>>>> cards for Los Angeles Railway / LATL are at
> the museum in Perris. 
> >>>>> If someone wants to look, and there are those
> who have, we know 
> >>>>> precisely what was done. Jim is correct.
> LATL's maintenance was 
> >>>>> superb ... among the best in the nation and it
> was a National City 
> >>>>> Lines property to boot.
> >>>>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jim__Holland
> 
> 
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
> 
> down with pantographs ----
> UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> 



		
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