[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

[Fred Schneider]

MALFUNCTION JUNCTION should have reserved that one for SEPTA.   Remember back into the 1970s when they were getting something like 400 miles between road failures on their PCC fleet?   The Silverliners weren't a whole lot better except that running them MU helped to mask a lot of issues.   I remember coming into Harrisburg one morning assisting the engineer on a SEPTA Silverliner .... the air compressor was all but dead .... if he a brake reduction he was not going to be able to release it again so he held the controller to keep the dead man off and I brought the car to a stop with the hand brake on the other side of the cab.   

I asked him later how he explained bring it in to the Road Foreman of Engines and he said he admitted how it was done.   His secretary rode that train and she knew me.   I think it fell into one of those categories of "you do what you have to do."

And Ed Tennyson ... You're not supposed to be listening.   

I wonder of Ed was on the night we had the Middletown fire department there because of an undercar fire on a Silverliner.   



On Dec 5, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:

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> My favorite Pittsburgh fantrip sign in the 60's  was, "Malfunction Junction". 
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> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
> Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 4:05:10 PM 
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos 
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> I love your example Ken.   And wait until they get a picture of the car coming out of Sous Hills Tunnel with the sign GOTHAM CITY VIA BAT CAVE.    I have been told that sign was left in the car after the fantrip and that some motormen used it in lieu of rolling up CAR HOUSE.   
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>> I followed the debate over the apparently or possibly mislabeled photo dated 
>> 1906. The imagine could very well have been arbitrarily mislabeled. I 
>> suspect that it has. 
>> I possess a negative showing a Milwaukee Electric interurban on a 1948 
>> fantrip along the Milwaukee-Port Washington line, displaying a destination 
>> which was along a segment of another line. That stop had been eliminated 
>> some years before the photo was taken. The negative was labeled "Waukesha 
>> line, 1939." The shot was taken in Thiensville, Wisconsin. The white flags 
>> on the car should have been a hint. 
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>> Now imagine the chaos this attached photo could cause in another one hundred 
>> years if it gets into the hands of a non-Pittsburgh fan. :-) 
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