[PRCo] Re: Car 100's Seat Fabric

[Fred Schneider]

Well, its interesting because it shows that Pittsburgh's transport  
problem was unique.   They had a very heavy load factor at certain  
points on the line, such as Second Avenue at J&L, Carson Street at  
J&L, Homestead at the U S Steel Gates, East Pittsburgh at the  
Westinghouse gates, Wilmerding at the air brake plant, Oakland at  
three universities, and these created transit sudden peak demands  
like one mind find in a subway.   Today you can build a steel mill  
that uses a small number of employees thanks to electric furnaces and  
computer controlled operations systems, in those days there was no  
such thing as a small steel mill.  They employed thousands of  
people.   Pittsburgh's experiments with seating to come up with the  
fully longitudinal seating in the front of the car are interesting.

You might have observed that they did try other means of seating such  
as bucket seats but they did not use them any where near the mills.    
There were bucket seat 5200s, for example, assigned to Ingram car  
house.   And bucket seat cars assigned to the interurban lines.   But  
otherwise, PRC seemed to prefer maximizing standing room for the rush  
hours.

Very interesting Boris.

On Mar 12, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. --  
Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland wrote:

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> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/PRCo%20100.jpg
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> Boris Cefer wrote:
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>> It is clear, but the St. Louis Car photo shows a diferent pattern...
>> Now I attached an another photo. It is not easy to recognize the
>> number 100 above the windshield, but it is #100 and the pattern is  
>> not
>> that you sent.
>> Boris
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
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> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/100%20Upholstery 
> %20Pattern.jpg
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>> Yesterday I located the fabric sample which has been represented  
>> to us
>> as coming from "the demonstrator" car. I will leave it to all of you
>> with the photos to determine whether it matches. It scanned very
>> nicely but I'm not pleased with the color even after adjustment...the
>> brown is really a bit more "milk-chocolatey" (redder), but it's  
>> close.
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>> Right now it's a 3+MB file even in JPEG format, so Derrick's machines
>> will presumably handle it OK.
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>> Ed
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