[PRCo] Re: To PCC or Not to PCC?.......That is the Question.

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

> Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> Hello:

> Two things keep me reading mail from this group; PRCo, of course, and the
> knowledge and gentlemanliness (no offense if there are ladies aboard).

	Awwwww, Shucks, Robert   ---   you are making everyone blush!!

> That said I've read a good many posts in this thread and the thing that I
> noticed first is that only railfans care (that is why it can be debated so
> much here).  But I wonder how many trolley fans (members of this list
> exempted of course) know what makes a streetcar a PCC.  So I'm going to have
> to try a little experiment.  I'll swap the drives in a couple cars - put a
> PCC body on Brill trucks, and a Brill body on PCC trucks.  I'll take these
> to an East Penn meet that is frequented by about 500 trolley fans.

	Will you also have body guards present???????(:->)

> Now don't get impatient with me, the next East Penn Meet is in May 2003 but
> I'll try the experiment at the mini meet in May 2002 if I get a round toit.

	You don't really want to do this, do you?   Whom is really going to remember?!(:->)

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James B. Holland

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