[PRCo] Re: That damn PCC car on eBay

[HRBran99 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/18/02 7:24:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fschnei at supernet.com writes:


> and found  John Engleman trying to
> justify buying it to represent the Pullman order of PCCs that Baltimore
> "ordered and never got."  I never found it in the Pullman orders but it
> won't die.  Engleman was trying to prove it today with board meeting
> minutes from 1944 that authorized the BTC president to "conduct
> negotiations."   With a goodly number of people "negotiations" and
> "ordering" are one and the same.  Of course no one can show me the
> order!
> 

Quoting from page 78 of "PCC-The Car That Fought Back," by Stephen P. Carlson 
and Fred W. Schneider, III, [description of photo by Edward P. Priebe at 
bottom of page 78], "Cleveland acquired 50 PCC's from Pullman-Standard in 
1946, one of which may have been on the production line for Baltimore before 
that Maryland system reevaluated its postwar car needs. One Cleveland car and 
an identical unit for Boston had provision for a rear foot-operated gong, 
which was a Baltimore hallmark."

Perhaps this is why they think it may be their Baltimore destined car?

Herb Brannon/Cleveland