[PRCo] Re: Early Arden

[Schneider Fred]

Did you ever see any restrictions published on where M-1 was allowed  
to run on Pittsburgh Railways in later years?

For example, did they suggest running it to pay the employees at  
Keating via East Street to avoid the hill on Perrysville Avenue?    
But then when you get right down to basics, Perrysville wasn't a  
whole lot worse than the grade up through the tunnel.

There are those of us who have run hand brake cars who don't mind  
them ... those who haven't are paranoid (i.e. the people at  
Branford).   The problem is, brakes just don't come on as fast as  
they do when you tram a PCC pedal to the floor.   You need to run a  
hand brake car with most of the slack pulled out of the brain chains  
and levers and still you pray that some kid doesn't run out in front  
of you chasing a ball.  You don't wait for the accident to start  
winding up the brakes.


On Nov 27, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Korrect.
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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
> Schneider Fred
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 7:31 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org; Barry, Matthew R
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Early Arden
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> Professor Lybarger:
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> I'm assuming that M-1 (as shown in the Dengler photo at Manchester in
> the link below) had hand brakes.   Yes?    No?
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> Herr Schneider
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> On Nov 26, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>> Nice.   I think I still have this old guide somewhere.   Wow.  The
>> museum sure has come a long, long way, in spite of the years it took
>> to get where it is now.  It's truly a first class trolley museum.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
>> Ken and Tracie
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:26 AM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Early Arden
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>> Some stuff scanned from an older Arden Trolley Museum guide.
>> Corrections by Ed, Fred and others always welcome, since being in
>> print does not always mean it's true!
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>> K.
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