[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Richard Allman]

Milton still is quite nice-there's a Starbucks near the station!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 11:13 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: [PRCo]


> Funny thing, when I first went there in 1959 the line went through  
> some pretty nice suburbs.   All that has changed.
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> On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:38 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
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>> And isn't Mattapan the heel itself?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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]
>>
>> what's amazing to me is all the construction in the Ashmont area- 
>> formerly a
>> slightly down-at-the-heels area!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> interior
>>> http://chuchubob.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1040200
>>>
>>> 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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