From: lfsheldon@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/27/2016 17:12, Larry Sheldon wrote:   
   > On 2/26/2016 20:21, Robert Heller wrote:   
   >> At Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:44:17 -0800 (PST) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> On Friday, February 26, 2016 at 8:15:19 AM UTC-5, Robert Heller wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> SEPTA recently refurbed some PCCs for use on a 'tourist' line.  It   
   >>>> seems   
   >>>> *people* like the PCCs, if only because they are cool (esp. with the   
   >>>> A/C SEPTA   
   >>>> installed) antiques.  Maybe San Francisco's TA has discovered the   
   >>>> same thing.   
   >>>   
   >>> Wrong.   
   >>>   
   >>> SEPTA's PCCs run on a regular transit route, Rt 15.   
   >>> http://www.septa.org/schedules/trolley/pdf/015.pdf   
   >>>   
   >>> San Francisco's PCCs also serve as regular transit service;   
   >>> a friend of mine commutes on it.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, but my understanding is that those routes are also favored by   
   >> 'tourists'   
   >> and *part* of the reason for using PCCs was for that reason.  I read an   
   >> article somewhere (I forget where) about SEPTA refurbishing the PCCs,   
   >> including installing A/C for use on *few* selected routes, in part   
   >> because of   
   >> their 'charm factor' (they could have just run the newer LRVs on those   
   >> routes).   
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