[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Richard Allman]

what's amazing to me is all the construction in the Ashmont area-formerly a 
slightly down-at-the-heels area!
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From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:20 AM
Subject: [PRCo]


> The original message was posted by Bob Vogel to Philly Traction at
> yahoogroups and shows pictures he took of the reopened Mattapan-
> Ashmont service in Boston on Monday.   I find it amazing that those
> PCC cars are still soldiering on 65 years after they were built but
> the Boeing Vertol cars built in the 1980s have long since been
> retired.    Are these really PCC cars?   Russ Jackson quipped that
> they were PCC-D for degraded.  They no longer meet the original
> performance specification ... they only are capable of about 25 miles
> per hour.  As I recall they do not use field weakening today after
> all resistance is cut out.   And they have solid steel wheels instead
> of resilient wheels because of an alleged inability to maintain the
> shunts around the rubber wheel sandwiches which were needed not only
> to ground the car 's electrical system but more importantly for
> signal protection.   So Fred the Third would not call them PCCs.
> He would be more likely to consider a car that was more advanced than
> a PCC a PCC but certainly not one that had stepped backward into the
> shadows.
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> photographed on Monday
> Ashmont station
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040070
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> Mattapan terminal
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040196
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040197
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040198
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040199
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> interior
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040200
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> Ashmont loop
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040071
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040072
> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040073
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