[PRCo] Re: Vicinal's PCC

[Schneider Fred]

Blessed damn spell check.

On Apr 13, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Do you mean "intrepid" rather than perhaps "interpreted?"
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> Schneider Fred
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 10:19 AM
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> Subject: [PRCo] Vicinal's PCC
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> Let us hope that Derrick's system property strips this and puts the  
> picture
> into a link.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Essentially you are looking at a narrow-bodied Johnstown PCC on  
> something
> resembling Los Angeles trucks.
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> 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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