[PRCo] Fw: Re: That damn PCC car on eBay

[John F Bromley]

Ignore final zero in 46490 - Eye kant tipe enny Mor.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John F Bromley" <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:53 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: That damn PCC car on eBay


>
> It sure as well wasn't CTS 42490, which is what TTC 4674 used to be.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <HRBran99 at aol.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:33 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: That damn PCC car on eBay
>
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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