[PRCo] Re: OT: WRM Menbers Day...

[John Swindler]

WRM also has a new display building to protect equipment.



>From: Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: - 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC - <pittsburgh-railways at lists.dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] OT: WRM Menbers Day...
>Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:35:11 -0700
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>  WRM is Western Railway Museum near Rio Vista, CA, not far from San
>Francisco.     Thought you might enjoy these photos - or the Museum people
>will find some interest.     I met Kevin's Dad my first Sunday in SF 30+
>years ago - he is now retired but worked for Golden Gate - Kevin wasn't in
>Mike's planning stages yet~!~!~!
>.
>Muni had 5 PCC-Like vehicles which were called Magic Carpet Cars of which
>1003 is one - several had Brill trucks so that might rule them out as PCCs.
>    The stipulation that a PCC is a PCC because royalties are paid is what
>gotthese cars in trouble  --  the royalties were included in the purchase
>price because the SF Charter disallowed royalty payments so for many years
>itwas thought that some of these cars were not PCC.     I am sure we shall
>hear more on this topic here~!~!~!
>.
>#178 is not too far removed from #1 which Muni owns, #1 being The First 
>Muni
>Car which started New Muni Service in December of 1912 - yes, Muni will be
>100-years old in 5-years but I should be gone from here~!~!~!
>.
>Cheeze__Whiz  --  that Crandic car looks as though it could be in 
>Iowa~!~!~!
>     Didn't realize they had Wind Mills up there  --  wonder if that 
>belongs
>to the Museum~?~?~?
>.
>The last photo is just the tip of Very Long Articulated Key System Bridge
>Unit which traveled across the Bay Bridge  (now being seismically
>retrofitted)  into the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco, now under 
>intense
>planning to be rebuilt
>.
>-------- Original Message -------- Subject:  WRM Menbers Day... Date: Sun, 
>9
>Sep 2007 00:09:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Sheridan <bay1 at ....l.net>[1]
>Reply-To:
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>I went to RVJ today for their annual members day. A few fellow list members
>where seen lurking around the property. A good time was had by all, and I
>have the pictures to prove it. Enjoy.....   Kevin Sheridan
>
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>Jim Holland
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>Studying Pittsburgh Railways Company
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>....................From 1930 -- 1950
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>Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM)
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>http://www.pa-trolley.org/[2]
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>N.M.R.A.
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>http://www.nmra.org/[3]
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