[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Fred Schneider]

White gas buses were also a legendary schtinkwagens as those Fitzohn's that Brentwood owned.  

Strange that I do not recall the same problem with the ACFs and ACF-Brills here in Lancaster.  Perhaps it was a maintenance issue?  Conestoga Transportation Company won Bus Transportation magazine's annual award for maintenance excellence several years in a row in the early 1950s for its size class.   Among the large companies that took home the prize was St. Louis Public Service.   

All through the 1950s I never saw a CTC bus being towed back to the garage.   By the middle 1960s it was a different story.  Money had run out.


On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:27 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

> 
> Bob
> 
> I dunno.  But if they did, I hope they were well-packaged, lest they turn 
> black from all the exhaust fumes.
> 
> Dwight
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 7:39 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach
> 
> 
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>> No problem getting paczki's here. Yester day and today the local bakery 
>> (a mile from our house)Â has been open 24 hours a day. However, even at 1 
>> am this morning it was a 30-minute wait in line after taking a number.
>> 
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>> Did Brentwood Motor Coach allow paczki's on its buses?
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>> 
>> Bob
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>> Â
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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 5:06:20 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach
>> 
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
>> Was that before or after it ceased running thru to connect with Rt. 37?
>> 
>> Dwight
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Barry, Matthew R" <mrb190 at pitt.edu>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:07 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach
>> 
>> 
>>> 39 Brookline was a fave!
>>> 
>>> Don't know if you're near Oakland or Lawrenceville, Derrick, but this
>>> place is great:
>>> http://dozenbakeshop.com/contact-locations/
>>> 
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>>> [pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Derrick
>>> Brashear [shadow at gmail.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 2:56 PM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach
>>> 
>>> Today, failing to get my paczki, I am cursing the lack of bakery in
>>> the South Side. No trolley to brookline these days, and i know their
>>> bakery has them today. of course, not like i have time to bus, bike or
>>> drive there.
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> My gosh. Â There were pipple on that bus. Â That was before we convinced
>>>> everyone that they needed their own car and also before we moved all the
>>>> shopping venues to the suburbs.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think I've taken exactly two photos of buses over the years.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Last Fall I inherited my uncle's (who worked for We st Penn) slides and
>>>>> 8mm color movies that he took from 1946-1978. Â I've just started to 
>>>>> look
>>>>> through the  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. Â in March, 1954 . My aunt and cousin are seen boarding the
>>>>> bus. See attached file.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now I have 5,000 slides and thousands of feet of movies to look 
>>>>> through.
>>>>> 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  in 1948.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Bob
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below -- 
>>>>> -- Type: image/jpeg
>>>>> -- Size: 37k (38034 bytes)
>>>>> -- URL :
>>>>> http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/BrentwoodBusMaytideSt0354.JPG
>>>>> 
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>>> -- 
>>> Derrick
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