[PRCo] Re: New Orleans trackwork symmetry
Herb Brannon
hrbran at cavtel.net
Tue Feb 8 08:28:09 EST 2011
Pests ? I rather enjoyed them myself (looking at them, not eating them) when
I lived in Orlando. But then I did keep my distance. They are enjoyed better
if there is an ample "head start" distance between you and the alligator.
It's amazing how we started out with New Orleans track symmetry, went on to
seat cushions, and ended up with alligators.
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 00:54, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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:
>
> >
> >
> > Your right, Bob. Does taste somewhat like chicken. Had some last
> > Wednesday near Cape Canaveral.
> >
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > > I remember PRC operators carrying fold-up seat cushions to their PCC
> runs
> > in summer months.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Feb 7, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
> > >
> > > > What do you think of the seats in the cars ?
> > > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:51, <bobrathke at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Attached are three photos I took at the end of the St. Charles line
> in
> > > >> November, 2009.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> I like the symmetry of the cross-over trackwork. It's broad gauge,
> so
> > I'm
> > > >> on PRC topic. :-)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> Bob
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> > > > Herb Brannon
> > > > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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