[PRCo] Re: Roster -- Book -- PRCo --http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/carlist.htm

[Greg King]

Absolutely spot on target Jim,

That's the things about the system I want to see, there's an abundance of
phots every from the 60's, but what about the 40's and 50's and I too love
all the other bits that make a system great and added to the mystery of
trolley operation, not the sterile (for all it's great value) nature of the
current LRT systems. I was fortunate enough to see the wonderful Brisbane
system before it was murdered and it had all those fascinating things that
made it wonderful, signal boxes (you call them interlocking towers I think)
built over the front of a Bank at the corner of a complex junction and one
out in the middle of a junction known as "five ways" down to boxes stuck
away in corners between buildings in the city with the mystical words
"TRAMS" on them, one wonders if you opened them would you find worn out
trams in them? (actually emergency supplies, re-rail plates jacks etc., not
that they were ever needed on such a well maintained system, like LA and
DC).  A book with all this sort of stuff would be a gem!

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 1:40 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Roster -- Book --
PRCo --http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/carlist.htm


> Isn't consolidation of independents also politics?  That's why the
> 'McKeesport Book' doesn't much interest me - just a very dry listing of
> all the underliers which predates 1910 and I am far more interested in
> the final consolidation of PRCo from about 1910 forward!  Precious
> little new information on PRCo in the McK book - and I have most of the
> photos from their original source!
> And I think much about the consolidation of all the independents was in
> that  *course*  by PRCo for managers which some of us bought from Ed
> --  and is even in the McK book, so do we really need it again??
>
> Everything and anything has a negative side - that is a given - even
> PRCo.  But PRCo is the system I grew up  ON  and I have very fond
> memories of it - and I want to keep the memories fond!  I am not
> concerned about the warts of the system, but the day to day operations,
> the routes, the people behind the scenes and even those out front, the
> equipment, the infrastructure including rail, track, overhead wires,
> wayside structures, the property, the schedules, the challenges, the
> unusual happenings, etc. etc. etc.
>
> > Thank you for your attention.  You may now return to your regularly
> > scheduled discussions.
>
> > Charlie
>
> > Charlesebrown at webtv.net
>
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