[PRCo] Re: F Market GPS

[Herb Brannon]

I suppose you, Fred, being a pencil pusher at a desk, would read the
newspaper. Most of us had jobs to do and did them well. I was too busy
helping to keep the service running to read a newspaper.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:08, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Sounds like a great way to read the Post Gazette.
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:56 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
> > At PRCo and PATransit it was/is termed "Car On Time or Coach On Time
> > depending as to streetcar or bus. Times when I worked the extra board I
> > always enjoyed a "COT Car". At Library we would pull into the spur and at
> > Drake we would pull into the short piece of track just before the
> beginning
> > of the old bridge over Drake Road. There was just enough room to put a
> car
> > into the former main line at Drake. When a Library car was running late I
> > would pull back onto the main (loop) track, reset and plug the switch for
> > the curve, then leave on the late cars time. I knew what car to look for
> as
> > did the operator of the late car. When we met we stopped and exchanged
> cars.
> > Then I took the late car to Library Loop, discharged the passengers,
> backed
> > north again to clear the switch, set the switch for the old main, now a
> > spur, reset and plugged the switch and waited for the next late car.
> Drake
> > operated the same way using the old mainline spur to hold the COT car
> until
> > needed. Resetting and plugging the switches had to be done properly to
> > prevent a derailment at both locations. At Clearview Loop if it was
> during
> > the times that the 42/38A (Shannon extension) was NOT running then I
> would
> > set the COT car on the 38A track just clear of the switch at the car
> stop.
> > If it was during the operating hours of the 38A then I waited at the
> "back"
> > of Clearview Loop. As ON TIME cars arrived I just let the on time
> operator
> > take the COT car and I took his/her car. I would keep trading cars until
> a
> > LATE arrival was reported. Then I left on the late cars time and met up
> and
> > exchanged cars again then back to Clearview Loop to exchange and wait for
> > another late car. Buses were done in the same manner only without the
> track
> > work involved with the streetcars.
> > When I worked at Capital Metro in Austin I suggested the COT system and
> they
> > started a version (similar to the Harrisburg plan) where a couple buses
> were
> > held at S. Lamar Blvd & Barton Springs Road, downtown, and then sent to
> > start the outbound trips of late buses. The driver exchange occured and
> the
> > COT driver brought the late bus into downtown Austin then went back to
> the
> > waiting area for another assignment.
> >
> > COT systems work nicely.
> >
> > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 15:40, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> That's why PRC had 'put on time' cars.  (is that official name???)  One
> >> location was Jane St. loop for route 76 in pm peak.
> >>
> >> CAT in Harrisburg is considering stationing an extra driver and bus at
> 7th
> >> and Dock St. in pm peak.  This has been discussed with Tom Collins,
> which is
> >> a name Fred will recognize from high school.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> From: dwightlong at verizon.net
> >>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: F Market GPS
> >>> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:34:16 -0400
> >>>
> >>> Fred
> >>>
> >>> It's an old Pittsburgh expression regarding PRC service disruptions.
> >> David H. Hamley ought to remember it--he used it often enough. So should
> >> Rick Hannegan.
> >>>
> >>> Dwight
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: Fred Schneider
> >>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>> Sent: Saturday, 09 July, 2011 22:25
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: F Market GPS
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I never thought of grapes also coming in bunches. :<)
> >>>
> >>> Years ago it was Boston that had such lax supervision that a friend of
> >> mine coined the term banana dispatching.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Dwight Long wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Fred
> >>>>
> >>>> Is that a tropical version of the grape method?
> >>>>
> >>>> Dwight
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: Fred Schneider
> >>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, 09 July, 2011 13:45
> >>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: F Market GPS
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I see that today, just like the last time I looked at this, Muni is
> >> still using that ever dependable banana system of dispatching.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Jul 9, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Ray wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://www.nextmuni.com/googleMap/googleMap.jsp?a=sf-muni&r=F#
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> One of the wonders of GPS.
> >>>>>
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> >>
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> >
> >
> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
> >
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> >
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-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park