[PRCo] Re: MUNI PAINT JOBS
Fred W. Schneider III
fschnei at supernet.com
Mon Sep 24 09:21:11 EDT 2001
Why would anyone want to buy a single car with an obsolete air system?
A San Diego car would spend most of its life awaiting the manufacture of
parts. OK, I forgot. Its government, not private sector. Doesn't
matter.
Greg King wrote:
>
> Hey Jim,
>
> I know you have a different view but even though the two Pgh cars are
> heavily rebuilt, they still have all those characteristics that are so much
> Pittsburgh, at least one of those cars should be in PRCo interurban colours
> (lets live with the rivets) and the other in PAT colours, either the grey or
> final colours, I know PAT was anti trolley but it would be a testiment to
> Pgh's trolleys that they survived (albeit in truncated form) this hostile
> regime!
>
> To do a SDERy car (I too, would love to see one of those), I believe Karl is
> looking at the genuine article at Tahoe (or was) and there is that complete
> car for sale so, why paint something that never was when you could get the
> real Mc Coy!!!!
>
> Greg
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