[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Mc Kinney Avenue operation in Dallas

[John Swindler]

Who has the two PCC cars from Toronto????  DART or someone else??

 

 


 
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:58:19 -0400
> Subject: [PRCo] Fwd: Mc Kinney Avenue operation in Dallas
> To: Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org
> 
> You guys need to read the first link ... there must be new liberalized rules for spelling.
> By the way McKinney Avenue 143 is a PCC car. It is one of those former Tandy Subway cars that began life as a Washington DC PCC and was camouflaged by Tandy Corporation. So if anyone tells you that McKinney Avenue has a PCC car, they are correct. 
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> > From: Jeff <jeffmarinoff at yahoo.com>
> > Date: April 20, 2010 2:58:00 PM EDT
> > To: undisclosed recipients: ;
> > Subject: Mc Kinney Avenue operation in Dallas
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> > http://www.smudailycampus.com/a-e/mckinney-trolley-continues-to-bring-in-volunteers-1.1372204
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> > http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?87287
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> > http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?37786
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> > http://world.nycsubway.org/perl/show?10955
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> > Here is an article telling about the heritage street car operation on Mc Kinney Avenue in Dallas, Texas. Unfortunately, the newspaper reporter got many details wrong. There are plans to extend the line at some point. Interesting is that they milled the asphalt off the tracks that had been buried for years. This was also done on 58th Street in Philadelphia a few years ago.
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> > Jeff Marinoff
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