[PRCo] Re: SLPS/SHRT/PTC/MUNI PCC Question

[Fred Schneider]

If you mean to the right and left sides of the destination sign ---- flag holders.


On Nov 18, 2010, at 8:58 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> For those who have a copy of PCC-From Coast to Coast handy. Take a look at
> the section on St Louis Public Service Co.and the 1600s and 1700s in
> particular. The SLPS 1600-series and 1700-series PCCs have a small device
> mounted on the roof just back from the top of the destination sign. It
> appears to have a bracket in the center and is made from a tube shaped piece
> of metal, attached to the bracket and extending to both the right and left
> sides of the car roof. I can find no mention of this device in any of my
> books. When SLPS sold their cars to Shaker Heights Rapid Transit,
> Philadelphia Transportation Co and the San Francisco Municipal Railway the
> device was missing when the cars arrived in their new homes. Does anyone
> know the purpose of this device?
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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