[PRCo] Re: New Orleans Damaged new Trolleys

robert netzlof wb3iqe at rocketmail.com
Sat Dec 16 19:03:10 EST 2006


--- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> I have not read a thing Jerry.   Damage estimates were about a  
> million dollars a car to rewire and rebuild the control systems.  
> I  
> think I remember reading that one car went up to Pennsylvania for
> an  
> analysis.

Don't know about analysis, but there are two RTA cars sitting in a
fenced enclosure a mile or so east of Brookville, along with a dozen
or so PCCs. The New Orleans cars don't look bad but I'm told they
were both completely or nearly completely submerged and are in bad
shape inside.

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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