[PRCo] Re: Antique Trolleys & Trucks

[Ken and Tracie]

I forgot to add, I remember (as a child) some people tucking the seat belts 
under the front seat and between the rear seat cushions.

K.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 9:16 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Antique Trolleys & Trucks


>I guess I should take this off line but....
>
> IMHO, the problem with taking something that nice across the country to 
> PTM is simply exposure of you and it.   Would be much better to load it in 
> a van and take it there that way.
>
> Those old tanks may have seemed safe but we killed people in them a lot 
> more readily than we do in today's vehicles.  We learned that a vehicle 
> that slowly crumples saves a lot more lives than one that behaves like a 
> brick wall.   We also learned that if we harness people in a slowly 
> crumpling vehicle, we have a pretty good chance of surviving when we plow 
> a car into a brick wall at mile-a-minute speeds.