[PRCo] Where, Oh Where, is Carmen San Diego --- aka Brussels!

[Jim Holland]

HI!
	Priceless humor today  --
		wonderful way to start the day!!
			THANK   YOU!!!

>>>> John Swindler wrote:

>>>> Maybe they don't know where - or what - is Brussels. (must be some place in
>>>> Jersey?)

	I was going to say that maybe they thought  *it*  was something from
the garden, but then my impression is that most easterners don't know
about vegetables!
	Someone Nameless from PTM visited quite a while back and I took that
Individual to West Portal Joes for dinner  --  plenty of trolleycar
action visible from our window booth in addition to fine Italian
cuisine.  Their cooking of the vegetables not only produces a delectable
dish, but is also entertaining.  They liberally pour wine over the
vegetables causing a flame of several feet to leap forth.  This sears
the vegetables, keeping all the freshness inside.  My Nameless Guest,
however, shunned vegetables.  Thought that was a fad we kicked by the
time we were teenagers!!

	Did I say or write that  --
		don't think so!!

>>>> I didn't say that either.

>>>> John

>>> From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>

>>> Maybe nobody in Philly knows what a "tram" is.

>>> I didn't say that!!!

> Greg King wrote:

> I know this might be heresy, but I wonder why Philly never approached
> Brussels to purchase some of there excess PCC's

>> Jim Holland wrote:::::::

>> After reading John's thesis on PRCo history and the hell-bent
>>       attitude to get rid of trolleycars  AND
>>               knowing that Philly was going thru something similar,
>>                       it might be summed up that::

>>               Pennsylvania did not want trolleycars.

>> Philly tried very hard to get rid of all of them as did Pgh.  --  so
>> why look abroad for replacements.

>> And when forced into keeping something rail, it is not in vogue to use
>> something old fashioned like PCCs.  It was rumored that Bombardier
>> considered offering an updated PCC but thought it might not fly.  (The
>> boeings certainly never did  --  fly!)

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