Re: Re: Flexible overhead in New Plymouth 2
IS Edit
Friday, March 1, 2002 11:04 PM
It did have that wooden rail (with the gaps on the
underside to allow it to follow the curved shape of the roof,
Peter.
But the pole sagged aft of the hook and aft of the
wooden rail, hence the fireworks. It was spectacular with little molten bits of
copper flying everywhere and a long line of smoke where the copper had
been.
RT Murphy
----- Original Message -----From: groompgSent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 8:58 AMSubject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Flexible overhead in New Plymouth 2--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit" <bobmurphy2@c...>
wrote:
. . . Once I was driving PCC cars there and mangled my back
pole so I put it under the hook, put the front pole up and while I
was doing that the rear pole sagged down and touched the
metal roof. Goodbye overhead! Lost 50 yards of copper.
. . .
Was it an 1100? The 1100s received a piece of wood attached
to the roof grabs at the rear to prevent this sometime in the '70s
(I think). This was after several incidents where motorpersons
raised the front pole first and then pulled the back pole (which
was hot), contacting the aforesaid grab irons. I don't remember
that the 1016s had the roof grabs . . .
Peter Groom
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