[PRCo] Re: PCC___Quiz

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


>> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Jim Holland wrote:

>> 095.>--       What defines a PCC car?


> Derrick J Brashear wrote:
 
> I'm trying to resist answering, but i couldn't let
> this one pass.    My recollection (I'm too lazy to
> go up and *dig* it out) is a certain book has a
> chapter entitled "Trucks and body make a PCC car".

> Maybe, but with just those there'd be nowhere to sit,
> and the car wouldn't move very fast.


	You are another one practicing to be Santa, Yes  --
		Ho! Ho! Ho!


	Comments are in a number of places in The Book, but it is stated
quite plainly in That Thar' Chapter on pg.85 of 
*PCC__Car__That__Fought__Back.*    Quoting:::::::


""What Is A PCC Car?    [Previous sentence in Small Caps Except
first letter - large cap.]    According to Transit Research Corp.
(TRC), a PCC was  ANY  [emphasis added]  railway vehicle on which
the TRC collected patent Royalties.""    This is the beginning of
the very first paragraph.



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