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

Sun Sep 13 00:59:57 EDT 2009

Sounds quitie different from the time in the the late 60's when I had an 
apartment in downtown Cleveland.  At that time, there were absolutely NO 
theaters in the downtown area and maybe three restaurants that were open at 
night.  The Flats area west of downtown was just getting started, but I 
couldn't stand the lack of activity - and feeling of danger on the streets - 
so I moved to Lakewood in 1969. Lakewood was pleasant and safe, but I liked 
Pittsburgh even more when I moved back to PA in the early 70's.

However, while I endured Cleveland I rode the CTS Rapid and bus lines every 
day, and occasionally rode the Shaker Rapid in the PCC era. Always carrying 
a camera, I took more than a few photos on the CTS and SHRT.

Bob 9/12/09

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 11:09 PM
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
>
>
> 