[PRCo] Brussels ends PCCs

[Schneider Fred]

Not Pittsburgh related but sent to the Pittsburgh list because most  
of you love PCCs ... a tribute to the last day of PCC service in  
Brussels, Belgium a week ago.     Notice the two links imbedded in  
the principal presentation .... one a slide show and the other a  
rather jerky movie but worth seeing.

For me this has been one of those difficult days ... first the notice  
that the Seashore wants money to replenish the treasury after paying  
$10 grand to ship a Boston #4 Blue Line rapid transit car to  
pasture.   My god, they can't be that old.  I can remember them as  
new cars.   And now the PCCs in Brussels ... I remember when that  
Brussels had gotten rid of all the old cars and was a 100% modern PCC  
city.   Yeah.   I also remember when my father passed a supplement to  
the Pittsburgh Press across the dinner table to me in which all the  
suppliers thanked Pittsburgh Railways for their part in the 1700  
series PCCs ... that was 1948.   Oh, yes, we also don't have a  
Pittsburgh Press either.   It has been suppressed.

To protect e-mail addresses:  blind carbons of this to Dave Hamley,  
Larry Lovejoy and Scott Becker because of our earlier e-mails about  
the Johnstown cars.

http://www.europeantram.blogspot.com/