[PRCo] Re: PCC2 septa

[Fred Schneider]

For what it's worth ... unsupported ... undocumented ... I can't  
prove ... second hand information received last week from a German  
railfan who visited Canal station in New Orleans in the last month  
indicated that NORTA was having problems with cracking frames on the  
trucks on the new Canal cars.  Those are the same trucks that were  
used on the Philly cars for the Girard service.  But I can offer a  
guarantee that the track in New Orleans is a whole lot smoother than  
the best in Philadelphia.

If you want to pick nits, the Transit Research Corporation defended  
vigorously their truck patents.  These cars do not have PCC trucks.   
Therefore some might say that they are not even PCC cars but simply  
look alikes.   As much PCC as the alleged Birneys in Little Rock,  
Memphis and Tampa are Birneys (without any of the normal safety  
appliances).

FWS

On Sep 8, 2005, at 5:31 PM, James B. Holland wrote:

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> Date:     Thu, 8 Sep 2005 14:12:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From:     Bill Trolley <pcc2168 at .......
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> The old PCC car was faster then the rebuilt PCC car.
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> Bill Monaghan
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> --- "me @ home" <hoboron at .......> wrote:
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>> Hi All
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>> What was the main difference between a PCC, and a
>> PCC two?
>> Outwardly, (windows at the top?) as well as
>> inwardly, seating,
>> tractive effort. etc.
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>> Ron
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> Jim__Holland
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> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
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> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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