[PRCo] Re: Maintenance

[Fred Schneider]

Right on!    And those events could shut down the best of operations.

On Nov 30, 2005, at 4:43 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

> 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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