[PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry

Mon Feb 7 19:05:19 EST 2011

I never carried one of those things. We had enough required items to trot
along with us let alone adding more on our own. I remember that the
"upgrade" to the mesh model was the "wooden balls on steel wire" model.
These were large varnished wooden balls with a hole through the center
allowing them to be strung onto steel wire. These were shaped the same as
the mesh model, however, weighed three times as much. I stayed away from
those also.
When I lived in Orlando I used to ride my bicycle around the Kirkman and
Conroy Rds area and always enjoyed watching the alligators in the numerous
lakes and ponds in that mostly undeveloped area. All the streets, sidewalks,
and bike trails were completed however not much had been built in that
section of Orlando. Just about every one of the lakes and ponds had one or
more alligators floating around in them. I don't believe I would enjoy
eating one of them.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 17:13, <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:

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> I remember PRC operators carrying fold-up seat cushions to their PCC runs
> in summer months.
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> These were the same 1" thick seat cushions (coiled spring wires inside mesh
> seat and back panels) that people used in their automoribes in the days of
> vinyl seat covers and no air conditioning.
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> I had some exotic food in New Orleans in 2009, but no alligator.  However,
> I dined on alligator at the Rosen Plaza Hotel in Orlando in 2010. Y ou know
> what they say - it tastes just like chicken.
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> Bob
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Monday, February 7, 2011 3:11:49 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry
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> 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.
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> A lot of southern streetcars had wooden sets with air spaces in them.
> They may have been hard as rocks but they were a lot more comfortable on a
> sticky 95 degree day than having your posterior superglued to a leather
> seat.
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> The first time I witnessed an air-conditioned transit vehicle was in a city
> that really needed one in the summer.   Would you believe Big D - little a -
> double l - a- s.   That was back in 1959.   Today we take them for granted.
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> Ah yes, Bob, there was a big difference between a summer day in Nawlins or
> Mobile or Dallas or Houston and a day in June in Chicago with a 50 knot wind
> off the lake.   I spent several days in the Chicago area in 1959.   The
> first allowed me to make a round trip to Milwaukee on the North Shore.   By
> the time I had lunch at Zion the mercury in that little glass tube had
> climbed to 100 degrees.   The next morning I went into a movie house in the
> Loop for a couple of hours in order to warm up ... the wind off the lake was
> biting ... must have been around 55 degrees and I was in a sport shirt.
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> New Orleans in the summer?   I never saw anything but hot and sticky.  The
> reason for cayenne peppers in your Cajun food is to make you perspire and
> the sweat evaporates and cools the skin.
>
>  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
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> >> on PRC topic.  :-)
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> > Herb Brannon
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park