[PRCo] Re: Apology

[John Swindler]

>Fred Schneider commented:
>
>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.
>


And the New Orleans and Philly cars (at PTM) are two-motor steel cars with 
K-type controllers.

With an apology for being biased.

John









>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.
> >
> >
> > fws
> >
> >
> >
>
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