[PRCo] Re: Re :Fineview PCCs

[Boris Cefer]

Please, tell me, what lifted the track brake shoes off the rail!

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 4:39 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Re :Fineview PCCs


The company did not seem to worry about what they put on FINEVIEW on 
fantrips.   I personally scheduled a fantrip using 1707.   Believe me, it 
was not suited.   The drum brakes would not hold it on Henderson Street and 
the grade was so steep that the track brake shoes lifted off the rail at at 
angle of several degrees.   But we got over the line.   The also ran 1700s 
over Arlington Avenue as the tunnel bypass and that was a little crazy but 
that may have only been in the PAT days.

Point is, PRC had a rational plan.   Yes it was not perfectly consistent 
over time because it could not be.  When you close barns and move cars 
because you are contracting operations, there is no way the plan can be 
preserved.