[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Richard Allman]

Ed-regretably yes! Once a vibrant center of Jewish cultural and commercial 
life, now a rather scary place.Thing is, neighborhoods in Boston long given 
up for dead have a history or rising from the ashes-so many people in so 
relatively small an area looking ofor housing. Mattapan-Ashmont also serves 
the city of Milton, which has always been a rather nice community-would 
remind you somewhat of Mt. Lebanon. RICH
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From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:38 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]


> And isn't Mattapan the heel itself?
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> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Richard
> Allman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:58 PM
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> 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]
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>> 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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