[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Dwight Long]

Bob

And by 1972 there was no more BMC--only PAT!

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:45 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach


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> Dwight,
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> I n 1972  I rented 1/4 of a quadplex on a street just nor th of 
> Greenlee Road. I rode BMC in the 50's, but not in '72.
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> Bob
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> ----- Original Message -----
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> From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:42:01 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach
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> Bob
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> Ah, yes, the Brentwood Motor Coach Co. Â After the fatal accident at
> Kaufmann's, a wag at the Museum started referring to it as the
> Brentwood Murder Lurch Co. Â They were notorious for using Fitzjohn 
> products.
> Was the one in the photo a Fitzjohn? Â For one year I rented half of a 
> duplex
> on Greenlee Road in Brentwood. Â The BMC stopped half a block from my 
> house.
> I rode it once or twice. Â Normally I drove to Frederick Street and took 
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> 37 to the Triangle.
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> Another thing about BMC: Â Their pollution controls were non-existent. Â 
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> was a true curse to get behind one in the Liberty Tubes! Â We called them
> Pittsburgh's only coal burning buses.
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> Dwight
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
> To: "Pittsburgh Trolley List" <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:09 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Brentwood Motor Coach
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>> I think I've taken exactly two photos of buses over the years.Ã,
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>> Last Fall I inherited my uncle's (who worked for We st Penn) slides and
>> 8mm color movies that he took from 1946-1978.Ã, I've just started to look
>> through the Ã, two large shipping cases, and y esterday I discovered a
>> slide of a Brentwood Motor Coach that my uncle took from his porch on
>> Maytide St. Ã, in March, 1954 . My aunt and cousin are seen boarding the
>> bus. See attached file.
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>> Now I haveÃ, 5,000 slides and thousands of feet of movies to look 
>> through.Ã,
>> The cases included his Bell & Howell movie projector, and o n the first
>> movie ree l I viewed I saw a clip of myself taken Ã, in 1948. Ã,
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>> Bob
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>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- 
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>> -- Size: 37k (38034 bytes)
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>> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/BrentwoodBusMaytideSt0354.JPG
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