[PRCo] Re: Winter

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

The two Mt. Washington photos show interurban cars.  Does anyone have an explanation for this?  We were never privileged enough for interurban cars.

Ok Fred - my next East Penn module will have dirt streets and I'll make a working sprayer.  I think it will be tough creating 1/87 scale water though.  :-)



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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Fred Schneider
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 3:00 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Winter

Refreshing?  We have green lawns and trees but nothing is growing fast
because chemical reactions proceed only in warmth.  The thermometer has
dropped to between 50 (10ºC  ) to 55 (12ºC) every night this week and some
afternoons did not even exceed 68 (20ºC).   And workers in public and
private parks all over the area are rushing to get the swimming pools
filled for the Monday opening.  It will be a good weekend for the Polar
Bear Club.

Dates would be particularly nice for those pictures ... some are clearly
PRC (M-1276 probably didn't run after the early 1960s) and some are
obviously PAT (the color picture numbered 29 showing a 1700 with a PAT
decal and a late 1960s Ford at the curb).   I think the sweepers were the
first thing that PAT retired, probably suggesting that old franchise
requirements (for snow removal)  did not apply to them.  Therefore I
imagine that those views of swept streets on Mount Washington were probably
in the PRC era.

Raises another point ... up to 1950 the street railways in Pennsylvania
paid about 10 percent of gross income in taxes.  I'm wondering if their
accountants converted services in kind to taxes, i.e. franchise
requirements to plow snow or sprinkle streets.

Now that would be the ultimate working model for an East Penn meet ...
missing the point?  Reread previous sentence.

Boris Cefer wrote:

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> Several winter photos always refresh in hot summer days. January 1964.
> Found today at Dave's Railpix.