[PRCo] Re: Two Items Needing The Attention Of THE LIST

[Herb Brannon]

I was down in the tunnels several months ago and tried some photos. However,
bearing in mind the cars are sitting in two subway tunnels, the lighting was
not real great and the simple flash on my camera was not powerful enough to
brighten up the photo. They all came out too dark. The cars are interesting
to look at both inside and out. It looks like a quarter of the entire C A &
E fleet is down there. Several work cars, some PCCs, Peter Witts, etc.are
down there. It's just that the lighting is not the best. Some belong to RTA,
some belong to Lakeshore Electric. The Lakeshore cars will not be there too
much longer. They will probably leave as they are sold.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:26 PM, JERRY.MATSICK <jerry.matsick at comcast.net>wrote:

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> Herb,   I would be happy to see pictures of the  Cleveland, Pittsburgh and
> Chicago cars parked on your tracks.
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> Jerry M
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 6:59:56 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [PRCo] Two Items Needing The Attention Of THE LIST
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>  FIRST ITEM:   For those who know of the contributions of Frank Julian
> Sprague to the electric railway industry you may also know that the date of
> his death was October 25, 1934. With that in mind, I would like to know if
> anyone on The List is interested in another "List Get Together" similar to
> the one two years ago? One weekend which matches the weekend timeline of
> the
> last get together is the weekend of October 23/24/25, 2009. It would be
> interesting to have the get together in honor of Frank J. Sprague and his
> contributions to the electric railway industry, specifically Pittsburgh
> Railways Company. I have been thinking of several PRCo type things that
> would be of interest to be done and will certainly enlist the help of any
> list members who want to help. However, first of all, is anyone interested?
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> SECOND ITEM:   Saturday, September 5, 2009 is the final Cleveland Subway
> Tour of this year. It is between 10am and 3pm. A very interesting venue and
> lots of things to do and see. Also, if any members of The List would like
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> see the many streetcars and interurbans stored under the Terminal Tower in
> the Tower City Subway Station I will TRY TO ARRANGE for us to walk through
> the parked trolleys. This would depend on the mental attitude of the GCRTA
> management and Transit Police on that day. I normally have no problem with
> the Transit Police inasmuch as I know so many of them. I just took the
> District Director/Rail Operations to a meeting of the Cuyahoga Valley
> Railroad and got him signed up as a volunteer Trainman. Therefore, I don't
> think too much is preventing a walking tour of the stored cars unless World
> War III breaks out between now and then. Again, I need to know if anyone
> wants to see the Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Chicago cars parked on our
> tracks.
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> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
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Herb Brannon
On America's North Coast