[PRCo] Re: NOLA Streetcars?

[Bill Robb]

The following was posted on the PCC_Cars Yahoo group
today.

Bill Robb

"The Riverfront and Canal streetcars are both housed
at the A. Phillip Randolph Operations Center (ie Canal
Station) in New Orleans.  Both groups of cars were
flooded in the carbarn from Hurricane Katrina and will
have to be overhauled before they run again.  It is my
understanding that the Riverfront cars have the Czech
equipment along with the protype Canal car while the
rest of the Canal cars have the Brookville equipment.
 
All of the St. Charles cars, including work car 29 and
deck roof car 953, are housed at the Carrollton
Station.  The Carrolton Station and Shops had no flood
waters but the surrounding streets had water.  The St.
Charles trackage had water near Canal Street and at
the Carrollton Terminal.  Additionaly, the St. Charles
overhead will have to be repaired as the center track
steel supported backet arms at numerous locations were
knocked down by falling branches from the many large
trees that line St. Charles. 
 
Thus, it will be some time before streetcar service is
restored in New Orleans, especially with most of the
city having been evacuated (and nearly all homes
flooded) and no tourists.
 
 
Stephen M. Scalzo"


--- mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:

> 
> > Fred
> 
>     Any status of the New Orleans Street Cars?   Any
> of them saved?   In light of the tragedy which I
>     know was terrible, putting that aside, as a
> Street Car buff, just wondering?
> 
>     Jerry Matsick
> 
> 
> > From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > Date: 2005/10/01 Sat PM 08:32:20 EDT
> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org,  Bruce Bente
> <bbente at cytechusa.com>, 
> >         Bruce Wells <cuzinbruce at verizon.net>
> > Subject: [PRCo]
> > 
> > The following was forwarded to be:  I'm simply
> passing on without  
> > verification.   Assuming that the rail cars were
> dry, this may  
> > indicate that power distribution facilities were
> either down or it is  
> > much easier to worry about other things at the
> moment.     Fred  
> > Schneider
> > 
> > Subject: NORTA to Resume 4 transit routes
> > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 22:09:28 +0000
> > I copied today (10-1-05) the below from the NORTA
> website.  St.  
> > Charles is the only line in the regular part of
> New Orleans, but will  
> > use buses.  Gen de Gaulle & Algiers are across the
> Mississippi River  
> > and Kenner is a western suburb.
> >     Bob Campbell
> > 
> > 
> > RTA service will resume with four transit lines:
> 12-St. Charles,  
> > 114-115-General de Gaulle, 108-Algiers Local, and
> 201-Kenner Loop.
> > 9-30-2005
> > 
> > All four lines will run along the regular routes
> they used before  
> > Hurricane Katrina, although 12-St. Charles will
> use buses instead of  
> > streetcars until further notice.
> > 
> > 201-Kenner Loop will follow the same schedule
> times as before the  
> > hurricane. However, 12-St. Charles,
> 114-115-General de Gaulle, and  
> > 108-Algiers Local will run only from 8 am to 6 pm,
> 7 days a week, in  
> > keeping with the current Orleans Parish curfew
> hours. The last bus on  
> > each line will start its trip from the end of the
> line well before 6  
> > pm, and in a few cases before 5 pm, so that it can
> complete service  
> > before the curfew takes effect.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 



		
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