Re: Re: One day in 1963
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Sunday, October 14, 2001 9:06 PM
Bingo.
One of the advantages of an all electric
car.
The M&MTB cars would zap if the compressor was
kicked in. That's why you didn't play slack ass when you put your pole up
(double entendre not intended but, oh well.). I always made sure I dropped the
pole onto the wire from a couple of inches down. Some of the idiots would drag a
pole along the wire instead of pulling it clear or miss the wire or ease it on
to much zapping. Lots of klutzes in this world, Val.
I've never operated a car with a pantograph so I
guess I'm dating myself here.
Bob Murphy
----- Original Message -----From: Val GoldingSent: Sunday, October 14, 2001 9:22 PMSubject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: One day in 1963That's an amusing story, Bob, but in Yakima on the Brill Master Unit we had to do just the opposite, put the other pole up before taking the first one down, because if the air compressor was on, it would draw an arc you could see a mile away...
At 09:54 PM 10/13/01 , you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>I programmed myself to lower the back pole first even if the interior lights
>were out and people wanted to get on. It's the only way for me to make sure.
>Even so there were a few incidents but I never went that far.
>
>Glad you made it without mishap.
>
>I never pulled down overhead though I broke a few span wires.
>
>Once I threw a pole at speed with a PCC in San Francisco and damaged the
>pole. So I put it on the hook, put up the front pole and during that
>interval the rear pole sagged down and earthed out on the metal roof and the
>overhead started smoking and then vaporised in a big plume of smoke. About
>200 yards of copper wire ended up in little droplets on the street.
>
>Bob Murphy
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <[email protected]>
>To: [snip]
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