[PRCo] Re: Boston Trolleys

[Schneider Fred]

There was one St. Louis car in Boston ... the only non-left door  
car.   3001.   It was once used in a political cartoon against the  
fare increase.   Don't have a clue who did it.


On Jan 18, 2009, at 5:28 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:

> Who did the cartoon of the St. Louie-built PCC with the sadistically
> grinning motorman speeding along as Charlie is reaching for his  
> sandwich?
> I've seen that before and it always brings a smile to my face.
>
> K.
>
> P.S.- Like in the movie version of the "Poseidon Adventure".....had  
> Leslie
> Neilsen's character performed his duties as "Master After God"  
> while at sea
> and had one of his officers slap the owner's representative in the  
> brig for
> the duration of the voyage, the ship would have been properly  
> ballasted and
> probably wouldn't have been capsized.......but then we'd wouldn't  
> have had a
> story.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:54 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Boston Trolleys
>
>
>> Would it not have been easier for his wife to have given Charlie a
>> nickel when the train came into Scollay Square?    But then we would
>> not have had such a wonderful political folk song.....   We also
>> would have taxes paying 80% of the cost of a bus fare today.
>>
>> Thanks Jerry.   Seems to me that song actually made the charts about
>> the same time MTA opened the line to Riverside in 1959.
>>
>>
>> On Jan 18, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Jerry MATT Matsick wrote:
>>
>>> A great video of the Boston Rail System
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHx4_uPv0K8
>>> --
>>> From: Jerry "Matt" Matsick "PHD"
>>>
>>> AGING: Eventually you will reach a point when you
>>> stop lying about your age and start Bragging
>>> about it.
>>>
>>>
>>
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