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

Fred Schneider fwschneider at comcast.net
Tue Apr 20 21:02:53 EDT 2010


Which two PCCs from Toronto?   

4600 Halton County Radial

4601 Michigan Transit Museum

4602  Trolleyville and then wherever it went from there

4603   National Capital

4604   TTC

4605    TTC

4606   Vintage Streetcar Co., Penna., later Kenosha

4607   Phornix Transit System ... on display downtown Phoenix AZ

4608   Old Pueblo Trolley, Tucson AZ

4609, 4610   Vintage Streetcar Co., Penna., later Kenosha

4611   Halton County Radial museum

4612   Edmonton Radial Railway, Alta.

4613, 4614   McKinney Avenue, Dallas

4615, 4616   Vintage Streetcar Co., Penna., later Kenosha

4617  East Troy Elec. Ry., Wisconsin

4618  Halton County Radial (they must be the Seashore of Canada   :<)  )   

On Apr 20, 2010, at 8:02 PM, John Swindler wrote:

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