[PRCo] Re: Maintenance standard

[Fred Schneider]

Not really.  He simply was showing slides and pointed out that there  
was an UMTA funded job to repaint the cars in the orange, red and  
white scheme, which was finished.   Then Washington called and said  
were sending someone out to watch a car being painted, so paint  
one.   Jeff showed a picture of the car that was pulled out of a  
scrap line and painted to satisfy the inspector.    That is about all  
I remember of the story.

It was the time of the ERA convention about 1980.   Several of us  
were up to his home in Sausalito.   Howard White was there; you can't  
ask him because he's dead now.   Leo Ross was there; Leo is now in a  
nursing home.   I think Russ Jackson might have been there.   I've  
met Jeff Moreau a couple of times.   When I first met him, he was a  
maintainer on PCCs out of Geneva.

Now I figured out who his sister was.   I had to ask my wife.    
Stefanie Powers.   She played opposite Robert Wagner on a mystery  
show on the boob tube.   There is a picture of the two of them as  
kids in the Steinheimer - Sims book, Growing Up With Trains, A  
Southern California Album, page 5, at the front of a Pacific Electric  
locomotive.   After his divorce, I think he moved to Sacramento and I  
lost touch.    I think Jeff's dad was very much a railfan also; came  
from New York area if memory data bank works.

Controversial?   I guess we all are in one way or another.



On Jun 17, 2006, at 1:57 PM, Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. --  
Import SPTC 1.48 Models // James B. Holland wrote:

> Do you remember more about the PCC?
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> Believe Jeff left Muni not long after Boeings arrived.       Only  
> spoke
> with him once or twice on the job.       He wrote // published(?) some
> books on electric GN.       He contacted me about the purchase of some
> SPTC  PE  PCCs  about 5 years ago but never followed through.
> According to his peers at Muni he was quite controversial.
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> Jim___Holland
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> Fred Schneider wrote:
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>> A PCC.   It is was Jeff Moreau that showed me the slide.   In my  
>> age I can't remember names well.   His sister played opposite  
>> Wagner on television.
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>>> Fred Schneider wrote:
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>>>> I think there was also a junk or retired Muni car that was  
>>>> painted for an UMTA official.   Holland could clarify perhaps.
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>>>> James B. Holland wrote:
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>>> Don't remember such.       PCC?       Other TrolleyCar?         
>>> CableCar?
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>>>>  I was shown a color slide of it by ... brain housing group not  
>>>> working right tonight ... the Muni mechanic whose sister was the  
>>>> TV star.
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>>> Stab in the Dark    ----    Jeff Moreau???
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>>> Jim___Holland
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