[PRCo] Re: PCC interior

[Boris Cefer]

Today we would need steel upholstered seats!

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 8:54 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC interior


> OK.   Maybe they were crazy enough to invest in good seats for the  
> right neighborhood at that time until they figured out it was lunacy.
> 
> On Oct 2, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
> 
> > I seem to have a builder's photo of a 12xx with mohair seats.  
> > That's all I
> > can tell.
> >
> > B
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 8:27 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC interior
> >
> >
> >
> >> It looks like mohair upholstery.   Unless I'm wrong, only about 50
> >> cars of each of the 1000 and 1100 groups had mohair and the rest had
> >> leather.  But I'm not at all certain.   All I can be sure of is that
> >> they were all leather in the period that I was riding them (after
> >> 1950).   The glass safety barrier in the windows was retrofitted to
> >> the earlier cars to match the later ones.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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