[PRCo] Re: PCC interior

[Boris Cefer]

So finally we get in agreement!

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 9:02 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: PCC interior


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