[PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry

[Herb Brannon]

I know they were everywhere in my former neighborhood in Orlando. As I said
in my last post, every lake and pond had at least one. Most lakes had
several.
On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 18:55, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:

> Alligators came off the endangered species list when it was discovered that
> there were millions of them running about the south and that they weren't
> endangered at all.
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>  Subject: [PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry
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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.
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> 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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> >> Bob
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park