[PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry

[Herb Brannon]

Too bad Mr Lloyd had never heard of "Cruex". It's almost a required over the
counter medication for all commercial drivers to keep in the medicine chest.
I'll take an "air cooled" 1700 series PCC and a can of Cruex on any
Pittsburgh summer day.
Now, to the "alligators". How is it that these people are serving up
alligator meat? I thought alligators were a protected species.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 16:11, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> The late Dick Lloyd, who was the operating manager at the Baltimore
> Streetcar Museum when I joined about 25 years ago, used to regale us with
> stories about Baltimore Transit.   He used to prefer running Peter Witt cars
> in the summer to PCC cars.  Why?   The Witts had a wooden seat on a post
> which he felt was much more comfortable on a scorching summer day south of
> the Mason Dixon line.   He claimed operating a streamliner, with a leather
> motorman's seat, gave the motorman a case of "PCC Seat" which was analogous
> to an adult form of diaper rash.
>
> I can get even farther off track.   Some of you may have seen the cooking
> shows on PBS television years ago by Paul Prudhomme ... the rather stocky
> chap from New Orleans.   His nephew runs a cajun restaurant in Columbia,
> Pennsylvania (12 miles west of Lancaster) called Prudhommes Lost Cajun
> Kitchen.   Great food.   Blackened cat fish, alligator, shrimp, jambalaya,
> rice and beans, and so forth.   All the good stuff.   They also sell neat
> t-shirts with pictures of alligators ... "Come to Prudhommes for a piece of
> tail!"   The catered my granddaughter's wedding and did a great jo
>
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> On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
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> > What do you think of the seats in the cars ?
> > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:51, <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
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> >> Attached are three photos I took at the end of the St. Charles line in
> >> November, 2009.
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> >> I like the symmetry of the cross-over trackwork.  It's broad gauge, so
> I'm
> >> on PRC topic.  :-)
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park