[PRCo] Re: G scale PCC in Pittsburgh Railways colors

[Schneider Fred]

Amazing how things change with time.   My first visit to Shaker was  
in 1959.   At that time the Shaker Blvd / Green Road line was very  
upper class ... large mansions.   The Van Aken line was largely  
apartments but still truly decent neighborhoods ... nothing like the  
extension of Kinsman Road that it later became.

My father graduated from high school in 1925 and went to Marietta  
College for two years.  Then in order to earn money to go to Carnegie  
Tech, he worked in a test lab at one of the steel mills in Cleveland  
from June 1927 to the start of classes in 1928.   He loved it.   He  
lived in the YMCA on Euclid Avenue downtown.   He used the streetcars  
to get everywhere.   The east side in those days was wholly  
Caucasian.   The Negros were still prisoners, share cropping on farms  
in the south.   The white farm owners did everything possible to make  
sure they stayed because the entire southern economy was based on a  
captive work force.   I guess that really didn't end until World War  
II.    I know that church socials were part of his life.   I think  
Euclid Beach Park in the summer was probably also a big part of it.

Of course that story wasn't a whole lot different in Chicago,  
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia or any other northern city.


On Jul 5, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> I lived in Pittsburgh Proper when the IT cars were at Cleveland.  
> Don't know
> what horrors they went through. Hopefully they kept them on the  
> Green Road
> line.
>
> On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Ken and Tracie
> <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>wrote:
>
>> This reminds me..........the last time I was at OERM, they were using
>> LARY/LATL PCC 3100 on the demonstration loop.
>>
>> I was totally disgusted to find modern gang "tagging" scratched  
>> into the
>> seatbacks. A member told me some of the human garbage which  
>> occupied the
>> then recently constructed apartment complex nearby (thanks,  
>> greedy, corrupt
>> Perris officials) sent their kids to the museum to "ride the  
>> trains" rather
>> than actually engage in parenting.
>>
>> As far as these kids were concerned, a transit vehicle was a "rolling
>> canvas", whether it was in active service or at a museum.
>>
>> To get back on topic, I wonder what horror stories the PRM people  
>> can share
>> about returned cars after they were loaned to PAT? Or what sort of
>> "artistic
>> expression" was performed on the former IT PCCs when they were  
>> loaned to
>> the
>> SHRT in "West Pittsburgh"?
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Robb" <bill937ca at yahoo.ca>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 7:18 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] G scale PCC in Pittsburgh Railways colors
>>
>>
>>> If you like your model streetcars big this is for you. A G scale
>>> air-electric PCC that will be available in Pittsburgh Railway  
>>> colors (and
>>> 8 other choices) I believe the body is based on LARY 3001 which is
>>> preserved at the Orange Empire Museum. More info on page 2 of the  
>>> Aristo
>>> Craft Insider. This car should be out later in the year.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast  <<TM>>
> The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.
> *Huey Long (LA Governor, 1928-1932)*
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