[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

Funny thing, when I first went there in 1959 the line went through  
some pretty nice suburbs.   All that has changed.

On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

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