[PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry

Tue Feb 8 00:54:41 EST 2011

Herb

I went to an open house of a warehouse we used in the South which was held in NOLA.  They had alligator prepared AT LEAST a dozen different ways.  But it does resemble chix, as does rattlesnake.

Alligators, rather than being endangered, have become pests in some parts of the south.

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Herb Brannon 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Monday, 07 February, 2011 21:17
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry

  If everyone of The List keeps munching on them they're going to be
  endangered again.
  On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 20:54, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote:

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  > Your right, Bob.  Does taste somewhat like chicken.  Had some last
  > Wednesday near Cape Canaveral.
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  > > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 22:13:40 +0000
  > > From: bobrathke at comcast.net
  > > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
  >  > 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
  > >
  > > 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.
  > >
  > > 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.
  > >
  > > 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.
  > >
  > > 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.
  > >
  > > 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
  > I'm
  > > >> on PRC topic.  :-)
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  Herb Brannon
  In Cuyahoga Valley National Park