[PRCo] Re: WHAT IS Your Favorite Mod PAT Scheme???????

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

>> Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

>> YES.  We tried several interesting changes.  The little table went with
>> a seat reversed.  We did the same thing with our matching 40' Extra
>> Special bus which included a large destination sign and the same
>> colors as the PCC.

> Jim Holland wrote:

>         SOOOOO  --  out of all the cars overhauled,
>                 do You Have A Favorite???????

	ORrrrr, to state it another way, what is your all--time favorite PRCo 
({[pat]})  PCC car??

	ORrrrr, your all--time favorite PRCo  ({[pat]})  car  --
		low-floor or
			high-floor
				or Interurban
					or PCC???????

>     Believe Harold Geissenheimer's Team produced the banded paint schemes
> of 1971 and later and initial public reaction was quite favorable, esp.
> when Sunburst Trolley 1730 hit the market.  The public could readily
> identify with the Name and Number of the car!!  Quite impressive!(:->)

>       1)--It is extremely difficult to pick a favorite, but because the
> Sunburst Trolley  --  1730  --  proclaimed itself so beautifully and
> positively in addition to making excellent PR amongst the public would
> have to be my favorite one.
>       There are so many different cars  --  paint schemes  --  to choose
> from it is very difficult to make a choice.
>       Somewhere right behind this would be the following
> three.......make it four:::::::

>       2)--Interurban 1776, ex-1616, because 1616 was so beautifully
> maintained by PRCo, because it is an interurban, because it is the first
> air-car completely overhauled, because of the BiCentennial paint
> scheme!!
>       3)--One of the double-ended interurbans because of a very definite
> attempt to keep service running during disruptions, the uniqueness of
> such an attempt for Pgh., and the good looks of the results.
>       4)--Car 1734  --  the Jolly Trolley  --  because it is  ({[pat]})
> poking fun at itself because of prior management calling railfans::
> "Trolley--Jollies!"
>       5)--Car 1976, the first flat-front car.  While I am an interurban
> afficionado first, I will defer to the first flat front because of its
> number and forward looking style!!

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company
        Trolleycars  &  "O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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