[PRCo] Re: PCC being towed

[Boris Cefer]

Ja ja!

Do you have any personal experience (worse) with GE equipped units?

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2005 2:31 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC being towed


> And it wasn't even equipped by G. E.
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> Reminds me of the day we were having trouble in east Berlin with a  
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> (It's broken and it isn't even a Trabant.)
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> > The attachment shows something unfrequent - a PCC being towed by an =
> > another PCC. Perhaps the salty slush got in one of its motors. I  
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> > seen any picture like this one before. One would expect failed PCC  
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> > pushed to a nearby loop or spur track to wait there for one of the  
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