[PRCo] Re: Brussels ends PCCs

[Dwight Long]

Fred

I had seen on another list the bit about the last Brussels PCCs.  I think these were the two-truck PCCs and that there may still be some artics running.

If you are talking about the Blue Line PCC cars, they are about 60 years old.  I remember when they supplanted the really old stuff.  The PCC cars had some sort of polarized glass in them which got quite a bit of publicity.  But there must have been an intermediate Blue Line car subsequent to those, as Boston, since the MTA took over, does not seem to keep cars around very long.  Cheaper to use Fed money to buy new ones than to maintain what they have, I guess.

I was a Pittsburgh Press delivery boy and that is how I paid for most all my early explorations of PRC!

Re your comment about protecting email addresses--is there something about which I should be aware when using the dementia list?

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Schneider Fred 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 22 February, 2010 19:46
  Subject: [PRCo] Brussels ends PCCs


  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/