[PRCo] Re: Early Arden

[Schneider Fred]

The pay car route car simply said we go from this barn to that  
barn.   Does not say by what route.

On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Wasn't there a pay car route card?  Or was that just the mail car?
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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: Thursday, November 27, 2008 9:53 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Early Arden
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> 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.
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> 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.
>
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> On Nov 27, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
>
>> Korrect.
>>
>> -----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
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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!
>>>
>>> K.
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