[PRCo] Re: Apology

[John Swindler]

Falls into the category, Fred, that we are both 'preaching to the choir'. 
<g>

John


>From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Apology
>Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:46:30 -0400
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>I'm not sure what you were saying John, other than they are older.
>My comment would be that two motor, K-control cars are 1) easier on
>the power bill, 2) easier for neophyte mechanics to understand, and
>3) much easier to service because most of the routine oiling points
>and service points are easily reached.   The only cars I can think of
>that would be easier to keep running would be hand-brake cars.
>Lamentably, most museums shun them because they have only one in a
>field of air brake cars (such as Branford's former Wildwood NJ open
>car) in a field of air-brake cars and most operators really don't
>understand them.   I remember a comment from an Arden trained man
>when he first ran a hand brake car in Baltimore, "This is the
>original self-lapping brake valve."
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>On Oct 18, 2005, at 1:10 PM, John Swindler wrote:
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> >> Fred Schneider commented:
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> >> 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.
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> >> 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.
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> > And the New Orleans and Philly cars (at PTM) are two-motor steel
> > cars with
> > K-type controllers.
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> > With an apology for being biased.
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> >> On Oct 18, 2005, at 12:44 AM, Mark McGuire wrote:
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> >>>   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.
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> >>> -- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> >>> An open apology to Boris:
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> >>> Boris:
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> >>> 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."
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> >>> But the car is no way ready for service.
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