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

[Fred Schneider]

That would mean rebuilding a piece of trash to resemble a streetcar.   


On Apr 20, 2010, at 8:43 PM, richard allman wrote:

> what really deserves to be there is a Boston ex-Dallas PCC- in my 'umble 
> opinion...
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> From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:02 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fwd: Mc Kinney Avenue operation in Dallas
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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
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
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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.
>>>> 
>>>> Jeff Marinoff
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