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[Ken & Tracie]

Hi Fred,

I recently had an exchange with Sherman concerning the surviving ex-Dallas 
PCCs. I told him it wasn't fair to loyal Texans that a bunch of New England 
Yankees were hoarding all those "Texas Rangers."

Sherman responded that as a native of Texas, he would love to see one of the 
cars come "home", but barn space was already an issue.

BTW, if Seashore believes those cars (and the five surplus flat roof 
"Tremonts") are worth $50,000 as they sit, maybe I could ask and get 
$850,000 for our current house.

I still like your idea of painting one of the cars in a half Dallas, half 
Boston paint scheme. It's a good idea no Speedrail Curvesiders survived, or 
we'd have to paint it in FOUR color schemes.

I once asked somebody at OERM if they would consider painting one of their 
five "Hollywood" cars in a Portland paint scheme. I was told that no, only a 
car that actually served in Portland could be restored as a Portland car. I 
accepted that stance until I found out they are planning to paint one of 
their other "duplicates" to represent a member of that series which served 
elsewhere, though the particular car being modified never served there. Plus 
they are in no hurry to repaint their P.E. Birney which was loaned to Tucson 
back into it's correct colors.

Seriously, last I heard, Sherman is still alive (he's about the same age as 
our Midnight, who is sixteen and showing no signs of slowing down.) I have 
some video of Sherman, courtesy of Jim Holland.

We are going to go to Phoenix later this month. I plan to make an 
appointment to visit the small trolley museum there and check out the latest 
work on the new light rail line. When we were there during October, they 
were dismantling the trackage on the former railroad R.O.W. and prepping the 
corridor near the university.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 8:34 AM
Subject: [PRCo]


> No, guys,  this URL has nothiing whatsoever to do with Pittsburgh or
> western Pennsylvania.  It will lead you to McKinney Avenue Transit
> Authority's web site.
>
> Two things intrigued me.
>
> First, look at the news.   Looks like they have permission to tear up
> another city street in Dallas and extend their tracks again!   To the
> best of my knowledge, they are the only part-voluntary, part-paid
> regularly scheduled transit system in the U. S. that is subsidized by
> a regular transit authority.   In this case, DART covers their losses
> so they charge no fare.  But they do accept donations.
>
> Also take a look at the ASK SHERMAN tab.   It's rather cute if you
> fancy felines.
>
>
>
> http://www.mata.org/index.shtml
>
>