[PRCo] Re: Homewood + early PCC days

[Fred Schneider]

To paraphrase the opening line from a once famous American television  
show,

"Your job, should you accept it, is to traslate that document into  
English and to post it for the rest of us to read."

On Oct 22, 2005, at 9:33 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:

> Not only commies! I have an extensive report on Pittsburgh PCC  
> operation
> dated by early 1939, long before the commies took over our country.
> It contains interesting descriptions of what Westinghouse changed or
> improved, information on PRCo people, track construction etc. Yet  
> in 1939
> the Westinghouse equipment was more popular than GE!
>
> B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
>>> From: "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood
>>> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:53:34 -0700
>>>
>>> Hey Jerry!
>>> .
>>> .
>>> Yes, often get snide remarks about being from Pittsburgh but we  
>>> can now
>>> take solace    ----    U.S.A.  residents may not have thought  
>>> much of us
>>> but we apparently had the Commies spying on us  --  AND  on our
>>> TrolleyCars At That!!!!!!!       Pgh. must have been  
>>> important!!!!!!!
>>> .
>>> .
>>> .
>>> Boris Cefer wrote:
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>> The attached draft was made by a Czechoslovakian guy who visited
>>>> =Pittsburgh in 1949. The picture shows one of the Homewood repair
>>>> shops, =particularly that one which contained also truck  
>>>> department.
>>>> In my =opinion the area marked red is the same that is shown as the
>>>> wheel =department in the recently posted photo.
>>>> .
>>>> Any comments?
>>>> .
>>>> B
>>>>
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