[PRCo] Re: Heat at PRCo 1700 Series Cars

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

Mark Mcguire often speaks of the problem with the 1700 series cars and the heat!   
must have been terrible riding in them during Heat spells or did the PRCo not  run them 
on HOT days!   Other than put in the "Standees" litle windows on top, did not the lower windows open at all? I am sure they must,  haven't been able to get hold of Mark and ask him direct?
Would be interested in the various comments we get??

Jerry Matsick
a double ended Jones  low floor rider!
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> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2006/08/02 Wed PM 12:24:42 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Off subject mail
> 
> For those who wonder if the list has dried up, this is posted just to  
> create the illusion of mail.
> 
> Therefore you have mail....
> 
> First off I wanted to comment that there was an interesting survey in  
> this morning's local newspaper that there was a significant drop in  
> the number of Americans who actually like to drive their cars.  The  
> percentage who like driving is a number now roughly 0.10 lower than  
> it was in 1991.   The number who simply regard their cars as a means  
> to get from point a to point b increased.   And Ford and GM were  
> staring at 40 and 50 percent drops in sales this July under last  
> July.   If more and more people are no longer enamored with cars just  
> for the sake of them being cars, maybe the automakers are not  
> thinking right?????   And then there was Daimler-Chrysler suing a  
> firm for importing the Smart car into the U. S.   I see that they  
> have now decided to market the car in the U. S. themselves at perhaps  
> $15,000....   And Vespa is selling 25% more scooters this year than  
> last in the U. S.  (of course 25% times 4 = 5 ... when dealing with  
> small numbers, it really isn't a big increase.
> 
> And I want to thank Holland for telling me that heat wave was coming  
> east.   The outside the car thermometer read 100 yesterday  
> afternoon.   At 9:30 this morning, when I left the barber shop, the  
> outside one read 88 and the inside the car one read 108 degrees.   By  
> the time I left the Waffle House some 45 minutes later, the outside  
> air was up to 92 degrees.   They're calling for 100 degrees with a  
> heat index of 108 today.   Thanks for sending it East, Jim.
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