[PRCo] Re: Boston Trolleys

[Richard Allman]

Ran mainly on Charles River line and sometimes on Dudley -Seaver. Could not 
run in subway due to no left sided door. Truth be told, except on fantrips, 
it didn't run much of anywhere-was mainly a demo.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken and Tracie" <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Boston Trolleys


> 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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