[PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach

[Dwight Long]

Fred

And my frame of reference with BMC is immediately pre-PAT, so I suspect only 
minimal maintenance was done.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 1:21 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Brentwood Motor Coach


> 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
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Did Brentwood Motor Coach allow paczki's on its buses?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Â
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Derrick
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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