[PRCo] Re: Cleaning + PCC beginning

[Ken & Tracie]

I "may" have a Westinghouse or G.E. booklet with a 1700 on the cover and a blurb inside about the new 1700s. It is from 1949-50. 

I can't recall if I own it or if somebody let me look at it.

I have another ad, for St. Louis Car Company. It features a Milwaukee trackless trolley, a Pittsburgh 1200 series PCC and an Electroliner.

Talk about covering my personal interests! ;-)

K.

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
>Sent: Aug 21, 2007 11:56 AM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleaning + PCC beginning
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>Unfortunately our copies of Transit Journal had the ads stripped before
>binding.  But I've seen PRCo cars used by both Westinghouse and GE in ads.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Boris
>Cefer
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 2:10 PM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleaning + PCC beginning
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>This brings me to the question whether the introduction of PCCs in Pgh was
>given any publicity in transit magazines of that era.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 5:06 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleaning
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>> In a publication advertising its PCCs, which I think might have been
>> called Gitty Up and Go, one side of which showed PCCs and the other
>> side showed older pictures, probably which was released about 1940,
>> they talked about car washers being installed at all the car houses
>> to keep the new cars clean.
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>> We have an earlier picture that shows a yellow car at what I believe
>> to be Rankin going through a spray washer without brushes.   I think
>> the brushes were new to the PCCs because they would not have worked
>> well on the window guards on the older cars.    They would have had
>> to have been washed by hand with sponges and then rinsed.   The
>> window guards would have had to have been unpined and swung down to
>> do the glass.
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