[PRCo] Re: Assorted

[Herb Brannon]

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 09:17, BobDietrich <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Well Fred that leaves me off the hook for those buildings, I won't be doing
> Smithfield Street bridge in this lifetime.  I just can't do that much
> repetition.
>
> The Southern Calif Traction Club is the opposite of East Penn.  Where we
> are
> a loose bunch caring only about the module interface they are tightly
> controlled so everything on their modules is coordinated and put together
> the same way at every show.  It looks like the downtown scenes were taken
> on
> Sunday morning, no people around.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:25 PM
> To: Pittsburgh Railways
> 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
>
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park