[PRCo] Re: comparison with Cleveland

[Harold G.]

Greetings

PAT in the late 1960's was a good bus operator but a
poor rail operator.  Bus maintenance went up but needed
the new garages of the 70's to be even better.  Rail maintenance
was little better than PRC.  It took the arrival of Ken Hussong
as PAT mntc mgr with the support of Joh n Mauro and I 
to turn it around.   Ken was a bus guy who turned out to be
good rail guy and a wonderfull manager.  He came frlom
Intercity suburban NY buses in Paterson. NJ  When he
left PAT, he ended up running the Wyoming Ave shops of
SEPTA and finally retired when he was in his 70's.  I went
to his retirement .lunch.   He lives in Plano Texas now.

Harold Geissenheime
-----Original Message-----
From: James B. Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Date: Monday, March 28, 2005 2:33 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: comparison with Cleveland


>Harold G. wrote:
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>> This has been my opinion from the 1950's. Its not rail vs bus, its 
>> clean vs dirty, its paint vs rust. Its maintenance pride vs shit.
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>This is hardly professional, Harold.       If this is your opinion of 
>PRCo, how would you express the quality of  ({[pat]})  1964--1971    
>----    PRCo was sheer heaven by comparison.
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>Jim__Holland
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