[PRCo] Re: Heat at PRCo 1700 Series Cars

[Fred Schneider]

And you could hear the bell on the popcycle man's truck a lot better  
through the open windows!

Man, wouldn't an orange ice taste good right now.....

On Aug 2, 2006, at 2:30 PM, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> One thing we have to remember is that we are spoiled with air
> conditioning.  I know Pittsburgh nights were brutal in the summer.   
> But
> I can remember only a few nights I couldn't sleep.  Now if we loose
> power we lay awake all night and sweat.  Open windows was the only
> available cooling device in our transportation vehicles.  I never  
> saw AC
> in a car owned by my dad, we opened the windows.  So sealing up
> something as large as a PCC and blowing lots of air into it wasn't  
> such
> a bad deal. Sure it was hot and stuffy, but so was everything else -
> your house, the barber shop, the streets of downtown.  The middle  
> of the
> Smithfield Street Bridge was a haven of coolness until you realized  
> that
> there was no shade out there.  When it was hot you were hot - that's
> life (or was).
>
> I still remember a motorman telling me that the 1700 windows didn't  
> open
> because the car was air conditioned.  Not one to dispute my elders  
> I did
> not ask him why it wasn't working.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> Edward H. Lybarger
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:14 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Heat at PRCo 1700 Series Cars
>
> They ran 'em all!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
> Bill
> Robb
> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 1:43 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Heat at PRCo 1700 Series Cars
>
>
> How could Pittsburgh Railways or PAT not run 100 cars out of 666  
> cars???
>
>   I've been in Pittsburgh on a very hot August day.  The best seat  
> in a
> 1700
> was near the driver's open window. :)  Catch the breeze.
>
>   In those days air conditioning was far less common.  It was just  
> plain
> hot. GM didn't develop a/c for buses until the late 50s. Even then it
> took
> time to catch on.
>
>   Bill Robb
> mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:
>     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!
>
>
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