[PRCo] Re: PCCs in Operation

[Jim Holland]

Yes, some are from Lake Tahoe  --  1033 and 1034  --  probably 
others.       Couple cars still up there, including a double-end car 
that was made from two single end Baby Tens!!!       Lettuce see if I 
can include some photos!!       Found some but have some in snow that 
show the DE Baby Ten much better.
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Had 1034 on a charter a couple days after  Abandonment  of  PCC service 
in 1982, 10-PM until 3-AM or thereabouts on All Lines and also along 
Market Street.       We went through EBT and headed outbound on Market, 
took the point on crossover to the inbound track and Intended to 
operated through EBT backwards but the backup controller wouldn't work 
so had to back through the crossover from the front seat and resume 
normal operations!!
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1034 was my favorite Baby Ten  --  soft springs, excellent ride, great 
acceleration, always enjoyed operating that car.       Baby Tens  
'similar'  to  PRCo  PCC  Interurbans 1700--1724 with B3 trucks  --  one 
of the Baby Tens had a horn for a short spell as well!!!
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Church and Duboce is a blind intersection with tracks on both 
streets.       When I operated PCCs there, the normal double track turn 
off Duboce for the J was in place as well as a pull-in turn for the 
N-line.       X-Overs on both Church and Duboce.       I was inbound 
with Charter_1025 (another Baby Ten!!)  and we back through the X-Over 
on Church, took the Outbound J up to Duboce, went the wrong way around 
the turn to west on Duboce, outbound on the inbound N track and the 
X-Over to the outbound - westbound - track on Duboce to Ocean 
Beach!       Did   ALL   this without checking, without help, without 
interference from other TrolleyCars!       Worked out great.
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Took 1190 backwards from Sunset to the Zoo and back to Sunset where I 
had to take the X-Over and make that loop again on the L-Taraval, also a 
charter!!!
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Fun and Games with TrolleyCars!!!
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Jim___Holland
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John Swindler wrote:
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> INEPTA should be 1050-1063?; and the ex. Newark/Minneapolis cars will 
> be 1070 and on up. The 1100 series are ex. St. Louis.
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> I was surprised how many cars Muni had in storage.       Are some of 
> these from Lake Tahoe (or are they still rusting away)??
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> John
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>> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCCs in Operation
>> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:48:51 +0100
>>
>> Only the Torpedoes are original MUNI cars.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:45 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCCs in Operation
>>
>>
>>> GPS so that the motorman can't take it home to lunch? <BG>       Is 
>>> this a new dispatching system so the car's whereabouts are known 
>>> constantly?
>>>
>>> Which of the cars came from INEPTA and which came from MUNI?
>>


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