[PRCo] Re: Boston Trolleys

[Ken and Tracie]

Yeah, I didn't think it was ever used in the subways. There is a photo of it 
on a fantrip on page 147 of  "The Time of the Trolley."

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 2:32 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Boston Trolleys


> 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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