[PRCo] Re: Summer In The City (City Views and Rail Pics From Cleveland)

Sun Sep 13 00:48:25 EDT 2009

thanks, Herb! another trip sounds tempting-always liked RTA operations from
a fan perspective, andas I said, the architecture and look were quite nice.
We had a fine Greek meal in the warehouse district. RICH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:09 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Summer In The City (City Views and Rail Pics From
Cleveland)


> Those poles are on the Waterfront Line. They were installed in 1995/1996
> and
> were a dull red at that time. Fourteen lakefront Winters later they have
> weathered into that shade of pink. They do need to be repainted. I would
> not
> look for repainting until the recession/depression eases.
> The coupler covers have always been around. We have a fairly new Rail
> District Director who is actually very good and knows how the rail transit
> industry should operate. He has ordered all rail cars (light and heavy) to
> have their coupler covers in place when the coupler is not being used.
> This
> keeps the many contacts free from dirt, water, and rust. They first
> ordered
> blue covers for the light rail cars and black covers for the heavy rail
> cars. Now, everything is getting orange (safety-glow orange to be exact)
> covers so they can be seen better in the yard and at night.
>
> Downtown is pretty alive now days. The "Warehouse District" is the club,
> restaurant, bar (all upscale) area. This area also has scores of condos
> and
> apartment buildings. It is roughly the area North from Superior Ave to the
> Waterfront and bounded on the East by West 3rd and on the West by West
> 9th.
> This area is always active day and night, seven days a week. The "Civic
> Center District" tends to have a 7am to 7pm crowd. This is from Superior
> north to the Waterfront and West 3rd, east to East 13th. All government
> operations and buildings are here for city, county, state and federal
> governments. A lot of nice, old "neo-classic" type buildings in this
> area. The "Theater District" is very alive all the time. This is the area
> from Prospect Ave, north to Chester and from East 9th, east to East 17th.
> There are ten (yes 10) legitimate theaters such as the Palace, Allen,
> State,
> Hanna, 14th Street, Ohio and four smaller ones. None of these are motion
> picture theaters, all are stage production theaters. This area also has
> many
> restaurants and bars for the before and after crowd. Again, lively day and
> night. The "Financial District" is a 9 to 5 area and is north and south on
> East 9th from Lakeside to Prospect. A large residential development is now
> being built in the area  along and several blocks east of East 12th
> from Superior, north to Lakeside. Existing apartment buildings are south
> of
> Superior on East 12th all the way to Euclid Avenue. The "Quadrangle" is
> the
> Cleveland State University area from East 17th, east to East 30th and
> north
> and south from Payne Ave to Prospect. Lively day and night. The bars/clubs
> are the young crowd. Of course Public Square, Euclid Avenue, Prospect
> Avenue
> and the area up to East 9th have lots of restaurants, bars, clubs and is
> lively on weekend nights, especially East 4th St. Also over twenty large
> residential building along Euclid and Prospect Many "high end" restaurants
> are in the Tower City complex and all of the downtown motion picture
> theaters are in Tower City Center. And don't forget the many, many trolley
> and interurban cars parked in the unused tunnels in the Terminal Tower
> subway.
>
> So the point to all this is, come back and see what has happened and what
> is
> happening.
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, richard allman
> <allmanr at verizon.net>wrote:
>
>> thanks, Herb!
>> what's w/ the pink line poles in first photo?! What's w/ the condom on
>> the
>> coupler? safe sex for light rail cars?! the new paint scheme on the LRV's
>> looks quite nice, eh? My impression of Cleveland as city when I visited a
>> number of years ago: downtown is rather appealing  and attractive
>> architecturally, but at night semi-creepy because taking a walk,
>> literally
>> no one on the streets! RICH
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 11:34 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Summer In The City (City Views and Rail Pics From
>> Cleveland)
>>
>>
>> > The pics are captioned. The security monitor is an intersting thing.
>> There
>> > are eight cameras in each LRV. The monitor is above and to the left of
>> the
>> > operators position. Using the monitor "touch screen" I can bring up
>> > different combinations of real time views of the interior and door
>> > areas
>> > of
>> > the car. Ah, modern technology !
>> > If you do not wish to see pics of Cleveland, then use your delete key.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Herb Brannon
>> > On America's North Coast
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> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
>
>
>