[PRCo] Re: News From West Pittsburgh

[Herb Brannon]

The Subway Tour, BTW, begins at 9AM and runs until 3PM, Labor Day, Septemer
7, 2009.
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:12 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

> The tragic part of all this is that if they had not waited since 2002 they
> could have been in operation along the waterfront right now. Back then they
> had the support of the city government and several local money granting
> foundations plus federal grants were available back then for projects such
> as this. They were waiting for more 'facts' (sound familiar) to appear from
> someplace before they built. Now, sadly, it's all gone.
>
> The second tragic part of all this is the Northern Ohio Railway
> Museum buying six cars so they might "save" them. They have twenty cars at
> their location in Chippewa which, over the years, have been reduced to hulks
> of rust. Some of them are so bad there is no paint left on them, just rusted
> metal. The really good looking cars out there have 60% to 85% of their paint
> weathered away. Northern Ohio is not the place to leave metal items sitting
> outside unless such items receive proper care. The "museum" has no working
> overhead wire and no way to generate electricity if they did have overhead
> up. The last time I was there, about four weeks ago, I asked when the
> overhead was going up. The answer was, "we have decided to pull a
> motor-generator off of that car over there, put it on a small flat car so it
> can be towed behind whatever car we want to operate." Definitely a 2nd class
> operation. The six cars, if they buy them, will be six piles of rust after
> about three Northern Ohio Winters. Like "The Pittsburgh Book", I will never
> see this "museum" become a reality in this lifetime.
>
> Several of these cars have been removed from under Terminal Tower, also.
> Other than the ones owned by RTA they will probably be gone soon. This
> coming Labor Day (September 7) will be the last Subway Tour for 2009. If
> anyone on The List is coming, let me know. If you want I can show you the
> cars under Terminal Tower. I do have to work on the Red Line on Labor Day,
> however, I make a Westbound relief at East 55th Stn at 7:20 PM. So, I have
> all day to go to the Subway Tour.
>
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> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Ken and Tracie <
> ktjosephson at embarqmail.com> wrote:
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>> http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2009/08/cleveland_trolley_car_collecti.html
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> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
> The Right Wing Economy: No Corporation Left Behind




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Herb Brannon
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