[PRCo] Re: OT Boston

[Boris Cefer]

It would be far better to install windows which open and reestablish correct 
field shunt connections.

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:12 PM
Subject: [PRCo]


> Boris will like this item from the Boston Globe because it's about
> PCCs that outlasted the Boeing cars!
>
> Mattapan trolleys get cool update
> MBTA installing air conditioning
> April 26, 2007
> The trolleys on the MBTA's Mattapan line, among the oldest working
> transit vehicles in the nation, are getting cool.
>
> MBTA General Manager Daniel A. Grabauskas announced yesterday that
> the T would spend up to $1.1 million to outfit the 1940-era vehicles
> with something they've never had before: air conditioning.
> The trolleys are the only cars in the Massachusetts Bay
> Transportation Authority's 2,340 vehicle fleet without air conditioning.
> The small fleet, which runs between Mattapan and Ashmont stations on
> a separate spur of the Red Line, is currently being refurbished.
> There has been no service on the line since last June.
> All 10 trolleys are scheduled to go back to work in November.
> The air conditioning will probably be installed over the winter and
> will debut in the summer of 2008.
> The trolleys make 300 trips a day on the 2.55-mile line, carrying
> about 7,000 riders per day.
> "We don't want to lose the charm of the old [trolleys], and we'll
> maintain that,," Grabauskas said in an interview.
> "But clearly on a hot summer day, air conditioning becomes something
> that our customers expect."
> MAC DANIEL
>