[PRCo] Re: Assorted

[Dwight Long]

Fred

And here in our area we had Crown Cork and Seal.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: "Pittsburgh Railways" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:24 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Assorted


> Open letter to Bob Dietrich ...
>
> Look at the tall buildings in this video at the beginning and again around 
> 6:40 and 7:52.
>
> Makes one wonder when the Gulf Building, the Koppers Building, the Alcoa 
> Building are going to appear at the north end of South Hills Tunnel in one 
> of your modules ...
>
> Of course after you finish Smithfield Street Bridge and the B&O 
> Station....
>
> :<)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EEOM3Q3JJ_o
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> I don't know Barry how Johnstown Traction mounted those Pepsi crowns on 
> the cars ... I suspect sheet metal screws.   They were removed in the last 
> or so ... whenever the advert contract ran out on the cars.   Perhaps they 
> were moved over to the new buses. I wasn't there to find out; was chasing 
> British and German steam and trams that summer and saluting army officers. 
> (You notice which order I put them in.  Has something to do with 
> priorities.)
>
> Did you learn a new word?   The pressed metal cap on a soda or beer bottle 
> was called a crown.  How do I know so much.   I spent part of one summer 
> in Armstrong's Closure plant tending crown presses.
>
> Fred the Ugly
>