[PRCo] Re: PRCo___Low--Floor___Trailers

[Fred Schneider]

Oooops, my friend.   The four motorized trailers all came from the  
sliding door trailers, not folding doors.   Look closely.   You'll  
see the doors behind the side window.   Now what you want to do is  
have Leonid make you one with doors that slide....

There is one of the members of the East Penn club who hails from  
Wilmington, Delaware who has made HO and O scale Wilmington and  
Philadelphia area models with operating folding doors.   You need to  
see them at some of the meets.

On Mar 13, 2006, at 4:45 PM, Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. --  
Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland wrote:

> Good Morning!
>
> Included are 2 photos  "Courtesy of the Miller Library, Pennsylvania
> Trolley Museum"  that show a couple of the PRCo low floor trailers of
> which we have  "spoken."
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> The first  URL  shows  "Pure"  trailer  A200 which means it totally
> lacks motors but Does Have Brakes!       It is being pulled by High
> Floor 4064 and is on a ladder track in the Homewood yards.        
> The B &
> C trailers had 2 motors per car to assist in MU operations but only  
> some
> of these cars had a controller modified only for shop movements.
>
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> The second  URL  shows  Former  Trailer  A217  turned into Full Motor
> car Pulling One Of Its Cousins at the terminal of the 71 and 73 lines
> aside the Highland Park Car House  (Bunker Hill!!!)       In both  
> cases
> (A200 and A217)  note the absence of an end door  --  only center  
> doors
> on these vehicles!       Fred notes that they eventually received  
> an end
> door when converted from trailer to independent power car.       Both
> these cars  'appear'  to have folding center doors  --  some of the  
> cars
> had sliding doors!       Westinghouse developed a special motor that
> would fit the small wheels on these cars  (24 or 26 inches)  and this
> ushered in the era of the  Then  Low  Floor  TrolleyCars!
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> Jim__Holland
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>
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
>
> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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