<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Phillip,<br></div>I'll try Phillip to write more...........but you know I "make up" a lot of this stuff :-0<br></div>Also, Tiger (the Trolley Cat) always knows what to do !<br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcc_sr@yahoo.com" target="_blank">pcc_sr@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">You have a captivating writing style, Mr.Brannon. The information<br>
on Shaker is most informative and interesting isn't it. I know of<br>
the system but not the details un til now. I hope you share more<br>
as you are able.<br>
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A very interesting pose of your feline scratching its forehead isn't it.<br>
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Phil<br>
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<div class="im">On Wed, 7/17/13, Herb Brannon <<a href="mailto:hrbran@cavtel.net">hrbran@cavtel.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [PRCo] How far off TRACK can we get????<br>
</div><div class="im"> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>><br>
</div> Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 7:46 AM<br>
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I drove to Cleveland last Friday to<br>
get my hair cut...........haven't<br>
located a barber yet in Pittsburgh who can cut a flat top to<br>
my liking.<br>
Then drove to Cuyahoga Falls to the Mickey Thompson<br>
tire company<br>
headquarters so they could look at my new tires and explain<br>
why there are<br>
blemishes on them. They took care to that to my liking and<br>
got the<br>
"markings" off the tires, especially considering the price<br>
of Mickey<br>
Thompson light truck tires. Then drove back to Pittsburgh.<br>
<br>
Monday and Tuesday a buddy of mine came to visit Pittsburgh.<br>
He is a Lead<br>
Ramp Agent for American Airlines at Cleveland Hopkins<br>
airport so I figured<br>
he would fly (free for him) from Cleveland to Pittsburgh.<br>
He<br>
drove...........he said it wasn't worth all the b.s.<br>
involved and he would<br>
be here quicker by driving. He has about the same opinion as<br>
Derrick as to<br>
the way the airlines treat the passengers.<br>
<br>
Fred-----what do you mean by "green and red tailings" on the<br>
Cleveland<br>
streetcars? Also, you had mentioned that you had ridden the<br>
"one" remaining<br>
"Peter Witt" train on the Shaker Rapid. Must have been a<br>
dream.........SHRT<br>
had no Peter Witt trains running in 1959, or for that matter<br>
in any year.<br>
They had two (2) "Center Entrance" trains which ran during<br>
rush hours<br>
inbound in the morning and outbound in the evening on the<br>
Van Aken line.<br>
The car numbers of these last two (2) (non-PCC) trains were:<br>
Train 1, cars<br>
1, 2, 6, 11, & 12 This train had "Cable MU couplers".<br>
Train 2, cars 17, 18,<br>
22, 25, & 26 This train had "Button MU couplers". Both<br>
trains were<br>
officially retired from service on November 2, 1959. They<br>
both continued,<br>
however, to be put back in revenue service for special<br>
events and some rush<br>
hour service for several months after that date. Also, car<br>
27 had been<br>
retained as a spare but was seldom used. The only real<br>
"Peter Witt" cars to<br>
be used on SHRT were Cleveland Railway 4050 and 4051 used<br>
briefly in 1935.<br>
Also Cleveland Railway articulated Peter Witt 5014 was<br>
tested but had a<br>
hard time making the tight loop in the Terminal Tower<br>
station. Those were<br>
the only three actual Peter Witt type cars to run on SHRT.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Herb Brannon<br>Back In The Burgh !<br></div>Let's Go Bucs<br></div>
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