[PRCo] Re: Cleaning + PCC beginning

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Unfortunately our copies of Transit Journal had the ads stripped before
binding.  But I've seen PRCo cars used by both Westinghouse and GE in ads.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Boris
Cefer
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:10 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleaning + PCC beginning


This brings me to the question whether the introduction of PCCs in Pgh was
given any publicity in transit magazines of that era.

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:06 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleaning


> In a publication advertising its PCCs, which I think might have been
> called Gitty Up and Go, one side of which showed PCCs and the other
> side showed older pictures, probably which was released about 1940,
> they talked about car washers being installed at all the car houses
> to keep the new cars clean.
>
> We have an earlier picture that shows a yellow car at what I believe
> to be Rankin going through a spray washer without brushes.   I think
> the brushes were new to the PCCs because they would not have worked
> well on the window guards on the older cars.    They would have had
> to have been washed by hand with sponges and then rinsed.   The
> window guards would have had to have been unpined and swung down to
> do the glass.
>