[PRCo] Re: Inside PCC 1673

[John Swindler]

> fwschneider commented:
> > Sadly most Americans haven't got a clue how much of what they buy > comes from other countries and how much the devaluation of the dollar > is going to push up the cost of everything they buy from clothing > and lawn sprinkler and a snow shovel at Wal*Mart to their next > Toyota or Volkswagen or Chevrolet. Chevrolet? Certainly. The > auto industry buys parts world wide.
The devaluation of the dollar is apparent in the cost of gasoline, but don't expect many Americans to make a connection between deficit spending and gasoline prices.  It's much easier to blame the oil companies.
 
John
 
 
> > On Nov 7, 2007, at 9:03 AM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:> > > Well said, Fred. Europe even retained their train systems and > > exceeded what we have here. There was a fairly good article in > > this past Sunday's paper, in the Parade magazine, about America > > needing a good train system -- once again.> >> > Now question -- what is the stick for in the back of the motorman's > > seat in the photo?> >> >> > http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/image001.jpg> >> > -----Original Message-----> > From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org > > [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of > > Fred Schneider> > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:08 PM> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Inside PCC 1673> >> > Please don't shoot the messenger before you read the whole message....> >> > It is the American way ... it is not an indictment against Pittsburgh> > Railways as one of you said but an criticism of public transportation> > in general. It goes back to Henry Ford telling us that each of us> > wanted our own cars. I think I once mentioned that when my mother> > and father met at Carnegie Tech in February 1928, he had two> > wishes. One was a vacuum tube radio to replace the crystal set.> > The other was one of those new Model A Fords. He bought the Ford in> > 1930 when he graduated from CIT and he built the radio.> >> > Cars came with heaters. You didn't have to stand in the rain on a> > safety island in the middle of the street. You didn't need to have> > the fat lady beat you to the seat or sit on you. You didn't have to> > suffer the misfortune of having some other son-of-a-bitch shed the> > water from his umbrella onto your clothing.> >> > I suspect there are also more antique automobile museums than there> > are trolley car museums, if only because we love them more than the> > trolleys.> >> > The other side of the coin is perhaps we've made very idiotic mistake> > burning up oil like crazy. We worry about cutting trees to make> > paper bags but I wonder if if we have not used more non renewal> > resources using the resins in oil to make plastic bags????? We've> > decentralized ourselves onto 1/2 acre building lots and left our> > cities as hollow shells in which the welfare recipients and drug> > culture live. Those who live there, except for a few places like> > New York and San Francisco cannot even shop in the cities any> > longer. In many cities they need to commute to the suburbs to find a> > store in which to shop (or rob).> >> > And some of you probably wonder why I like the European culture ...> > maybe it is because they still have cities where people live, work,> > eat, shop, worship and are entertained. They don't have hollow> > shells. As Josh Coran, who was with us remarked, you don't need a> > shopping center in Vienna ... the whole city is a shopping center.> > Right ... same applies to Munich, Graz, Linz and every place else we> > were. Seems strange seeing elementary school kids on the streetcars> > by themselves. Says something about the safety in their culture.> > And Munich ... the S-Bahn (commuter rail) is running at capacity, not> > like ours at 50% of capacity in Philadelphia, but at> > strangulation ... at the point where you really can't put more people> > on it.> >> > So the messenger isn't against streetcars. He is simply observing> > that many in our culture want to preserve their automotive lifestyle> > come hell or high water ... they want gasoline at 29.9 a gallon with> > big Oldsmobile 98s and no one on the highway in front of them. I> > don't think that will remain possible.> >> > fws> >> >> >> > On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Jim Holland wrote:> >> >> This will get them writing Matt~!~!~!~!> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> Barry, Matthew R wrote:> >>>> >>>> >>> Here is a page out of the University of Pittsburgh's 1963 Owl> >>> yearbook> >>> with a photo of inside PCC 1673, and a description of riding the > >>> cars> >>> that year by, apparently one of the editors of the yearbook.> >>> [cid:image001.jpg at 01C8208E.F3EED6A0]> >>>> >>>> >> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/image001.jpg> >>> >> >> >> >> > 
_________________________________________________________________
Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today.
http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline