[PRCo] Re: A dumb Matsick question

mtoytrain at bellsouth.net mtoytrain at bellsouth.net
Sun Mar 12 12:57:06 EST 2006


In looking at all my Street car books, I have just realized that Pittsburgh Railways was the only 
city using the Jones low floor car (Donora type)?  Am I correct on this?  Any other Cities?

Jerry
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> From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
> Date: 2006/03/11 Sat PM 09:44:06 EST
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo__PCC__1662
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> Won't interest  fws3  --  just purely trivia  --  Only PRCo PCC with 
> 4-spring vertical trolley base.       Remember seeing this car Not A Few 
> Times.       Don't know where it came from  --  PRCo didn't use that 
> base on anything else  --  maybe experiment.
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> Of Course, some of the Jones cars had 2-spring vertical trolley bases 
> ala PCCs  --  remember watching for those cars as they would wye on the 
> 42 line in the early 1950s!!
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> mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:
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> >Me too!   I have been looking on the hour and halfhour as to what Boris spotted?  What it be?
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> >Jerry M
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> >>On Mar 10, 2006, at 8:16 PM, Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. --  Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland wrote:
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> >>>Can you spot the unusual characteristic of this PCC?       Boris knows and spotted it almost immediately.
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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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> >>>-- URL : http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1662-39-IB-Loop_TrltTlk_1972-12.jpg
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