[PRCo] Re: Apology

[Fred Schneider]

You want a cool car in the summer?   Try the New Orleans or Philly  
cars ... windows open completely at both ends making them wind  
tunnels.   You won't find anything better until a museum tries to  
maintain an all-electronic, air-conditioned ex Philly Kawasaki car.

Unless the heat dampers are working properly, an air-PCC will not be  
cool in the summer.   They have to properly close off the body from  
the resistors and allow all the heat to be blown outside.  If you  
want to run PCCs in museums, you need a good mechanical staff.

On Oct 18, 2005, at 12:44 AM, Mark McGuire wrote:

>   I wish it were ready for service. It would be nice to have a pre-war
> Pittsburgh PCC in service at PTM, especially during the heat of  
> summer.  I'll settle for a double-end low floor car though. ;>)
> Can't wait to see the finished product.
>
> -- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> An open apology to Boris:
>
> Boris:
>
> You asked when the trolley pole was on 1138 and I quipped "sometime
> in 1937."   I didn't recall that anything had been done to get the
> car ready for service.   And for the most part, it is still sitting
> in service bay of the new "Trolley Display Building" in the same
> condition that it was in when it came back from Elmira.   But the
> pole is on it.   I asked the guy who put it back on and he does not
> remember when he put it back on.   "Sometime in the winter of
> 2001-2002 or maybe 2002-2003."
>
> But the car is no way ready for service.
>
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> fws
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