[PRCo] Re: 4000s-----update

[Bob Rathke]

Amen, Ed.

Bob  9/22/01

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:50 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4000s-----update


>
> The economy's "tank" is an overreaction that will pass.  Shame on anyone
who
> unloaded his stocks last week; you only locked in your losses.  The
economy
> is really not in that bad shape; if we make it suffer because of our fear
or
> inactivity, then the other guys won.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim
> Holland
> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 6:58 PM
> To: -*-> James B. Holland <-*-
> Subject: [PRCo] 4000s-----update
>
>
>
> Good Morning!!
>
>         The two Pittsburgh cars [4008, 4009] will go into storage at
> Marin Division upon arrival in San Francisco  --  they, along with the
> other Muni cars already in storage, the three "Baby Tens" coming back
> from South Lake Tahoe, and Philadelphia 2147.
> SF Muni 1040, the last PCC built domestically in the US, is in the next
> batch of cars to be completely overhauled.  Three torpedoes (double-end
> PCCs) will go out with 1040.
>
> Should be no doubt in anyone's mind that the economy is now in a
> tank.   Definitely Not Asking that a thread be started on the subject
> (and definitely Not Interested in Personal Opinion), but given the
> economy, Muni priorities, and other cars sitting here waiting here for
> overhauls, it may be a long  --  Very Long time before the Pgh. cars are
> touched!(:->)
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> James B. Holland
>
> Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
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>     Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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