[PRCo] Re: PCC interior

[Fred Schneider]

YUP.

On Oct 2, 2005, at 3:00 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> Today we would need steel upholstered seats!
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> B
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> ----- 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
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>> 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.
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>> On Oct 2, 2005, at 2:45 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
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>>> I seem to have a builder's photo of a 12xx with mohair seats.
>>> That's all I
>>> can tell.
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>>> B
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>>> ----- 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
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>>>> 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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