[PRCo] Re: Bowser PRCo/PATransit PCC cars.

[Fred Schneider]

I hope you understand, Herb, that I am only pulling your chain.   My dad was the model builder in the family.   I found out late in life that my dad and Ed Lybarger's father were both electrical engineering classmates at Carnegie Tech in 1930.   They both came out with the same attitude … if you can spend a week building something to save 25 cents, then build it.   In 1928 my mother said my dad had two dreams, a new Model A Ford and a vacuum tube radio to replace the crystal set.  He built the radio.   About 1947 he also built his first tape recorder.   He built OO gauge models too … from the rail up including wheels, motors, everything.   I remember a copy of B&O Atlantic he built that was totally … 100% … scratch built.   Some of you will get a kick out of this next creation.   When he got tired of hiding his camera under a coat in the burlesque houses … and you couldn't do that in the summer … why he took an old 35mm Baldina camera and a pair of surplus army binoculars and combined them … from then on he looked like any other old fart in the burlesque house looking through binoculars but he was taking pictures.   
But I never inherit that gene.   I admire a good model … both a model of a trolley and a girl   :<) .   But I long ago gave up trying to create things on my own.   Oh, I glue together plastic building kits as well as anyone.   

But I should stick to things I'm good doing … photography, writing about transit, travel writing….


On Aug 15, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Back in 19-ought-6 they were that price. Today you can get the white metal
> Bowser cars for 87.17. You can also buy a PRCo/PAT 1700-series boday from
> IHP for 55.00 then the Bowser PCC drive unit w/ floor for 72.00 and have a
> well detailed, good running Pittsburgh car for 127.00. IHP makes HO and N
> scale PCC, Rapid Transit, Commuter Rail and LRV bodies (and complete RTR
> units also) from various systems across the US.  The IHP craftmanship is
> excellent and Mike Bartel, the owner, stands behind his products. The
> selection changes throughout the year. Many items are also sold on eBay.
> The IHP website is:::::Imperial Hobby
> Productions<http://ihphobby.tripod.com/update.html>
> .
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Aren't they supposed to cost $16.95 from Pennsylvania Scale Models in
>> Pottsville?   :<)   That's what I paid for mine.   I think I was 13 years
>> old then.
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:08 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>> 
>>> In case anyone wanted a Bowser PRCo H.O. scale PCC and missed it, they
>> may
>>> be re-ordered.  I received the attached list of PCC cars which may now be
>>> ordered for upcoming second production runs. The due date is shown. PRCo
>>> and other available transit company names are also shown:
>>> *Bowser Items  8-14-12*
>>> *
>>> Available for Backorder
>>> Executive Line Diesel Locos
>>> (not in stock but more may be backordered)
>>> 
>>> *
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> *
>> 
> 
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
> 
> 
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