[PRCo] Re: Brookside

[Fred Schneider]

Different business by 1976.   Government owned it.   If it didn't  
run, the subsidy money still came in.   You loose less money by not  
running.   And you no longer have the obligation that the private  
companies had to sweep the streets.

It was obvious to me that PAT had that figured out immediately after  
the 1964 take over by where they had positioned all the company  
sweepers in a row at Craft Avenue.   All of them derelict and  
outside.   They'll never be needed again.

On Feb 20, 2006, at 11:16 AM, hrbran99 at adelphia.net wrote:

> I was working that day you took those photos. There were no snow  
> sweepers still in operation in 1976. I really don't remember any of  
> the sweepers still sitting around the yard then. By 1976 you could  
> count the number of remaining work cars on one hand!! The line car  
> and the weed sprayer car were about the only two that ever did any  
> work by that time.
> HrB
>
> ---- Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I just checked my notes for January 8, 1976 and see that 9" of  
>> snow fell
>> that morning.  I didn't see or photograph any sweepers that day.
>>
>> Bob 2/19/06
>>
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48  
>> Models //
>> James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:07 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Brookside
>>
>>
>>> Bob Rathke wrote:
>>> .
>>>> The attached photo, however, was taken around 8AM as I was  
>>>> hurrying to
>>>> catch the 1710 inbound to downtown.
>>>>
>>>> Bob 2/19/06
>>>
>>> -- URL :
>>> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/ 
>>> PAT1710Snow010876.JPG
>>> rr
>>
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