[PRCo] Re: Homewood + early PCC days

[Boris Cefer]

OK. Working on the picture.

B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 6:21 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood + early PCC days


> 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
> >>>>
> >
> >
> >
> 
>