[PRCo] Re: New Orleans Damaged new Trolleys

[Fred Schneider]

THANKS BOB.

I haven't been to Brookville since I went through the plant early in  
rebuilding of the Newark / Minneapolis cars for Muni.   I thought it  
was one car but it is significant that they looked at two and could  
average repair costs.

On Dec 16, 2006, at 7:03 PM, robert netzlof wrote:

> --- 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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