[PRCo] Re: Vicinal's PCC

[Herb Brannon]

Same here, first one ok, second empty.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>wrote:

> The first one opened right up for me.  The second one was empty.
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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
> Schneider Fred
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:13 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org; Brashear Derrick
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Vicinal's PCC
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> Can anyone open the attachments?   I cannot using either of two
> computers ... a mac or a PC.
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> On Apr 13, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Schneider Fred wrote:
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> > Let us hope that Derrick's system property strips this and puts the
> > picture into a link.
> >
> > I found the picture, unattributed, in a message from Dan Joseph in
> > Chicago.   Whether or not he took it is unknown.   It is listed as
> > Charleroi, Belgium.
> >
> > The car is the one St. Louis Car Company vehicle that was built for
> > the Vicinal interurban system in Belgium.   I do not have my notes or
> > my books.   Seems that the car went second hand to a Yugoslavian
> > property and then must have been brought back home to the museum.
> > Vicinal (including the tiny bit along the coast that remains) was
> > meter gauge.
> >
> > Essentially you are looking at a narrow-bodied Johnstown PCC on
> > something resembling Los Angeles trucks.
> >
> > By the way, the interpreted traveller is back home after having looked
> > at Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, construction in Los Angeles, the
> > Escondido-Oceanside Sprinter, the Albuquerque commuter rail, New
> > Orleans, Galveston (in spite of what the agency's web site said ...
> > it ain't running since the flood), Savannah and Charlotte plus a lot
> > of national parks (Death Valley, Organ Pipe Cactus, Big Bend, Grand
> > Canyon (five times more visitors in a year than when I was there in
> > the 1970s), and some pretty remote places like old US route 90 across
> > Texas.   I was doing my very best to find roads I had never driven
> > over before and it is getting difficult to do so ... car got pretty
> > dusty on those dirt roads!  Found a few strange restaurants too ...
> > one would not really expect Indian in Yuma, AZ would they?   Or
> > Korean in Charlotte, NC?   Found a great English pub in Phoenix ...
> > the steak and kidney pie was really authentic.
> >
> > The ultimate in strange was the place in Sanderson, Texas that
> > advertised fish and chips.   Now that is a British dish.   One would
> > expect cod or plaice with a touch of vinegar on the fries.   This
> > place had hot chile peppers ground up in the batter on the catfish.
> > Just about as authentic as the "Mexican restaurant" I ventured into in
> > Brighton, England, that served me a burrito stuffed with peas and
> > carrots.   But Sanderson had 3000 people before the Interstate was
> > built 60 miles north of town.   Then the UP wiped out the division
> > point there when they took over the SP.   Today there are about 70
> > families left, three struggling motels, two gas stations, one
> > convenience store, one restaurant ... I was just lucky I ate.   The
> > people who still live there have to drive hundreds of miles just to
> > find a Family Dollar store.   The nearest city of any consequence?
> > El Paso, Austin or San Antonio would be a 600 mile round trip.
> > That's what you do to buy a new truck or a suit of clothes or go to a
> > good hospital.
> >
> > Speaking of hospitals.   On the way home I stopped to see an old
> > friend who is scheduled for surgery on April 28 for a broken back.
> > To complicate matters worse, his wife of 53 years died one day after
> > their anniversary on April 1st.    I've known this man for 46
> > years.   If any of you know Bill Middleton ... sympathy and get well
> > cards are in order.
> >
> > Now I need to get to hospital for blood work for my own surgery on
> > Friday ... routine stent.   I'm tired of the angina pains at 7000
> > feet above sea level.
> >
> > Perfesser Fred
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Herb Brannon
On America's North Coast