[PRCo] Re: Cleveland

[Herb Brannon]

I've been trying to think of the managers name all day. I could see him in
my "minds eye" but could not think of his name. Thanks for saying it.
Harold Norris. He was always pleasant and had a smile.
 I started there in early 1973 and went back to operating because I wanted
the streetcar operators seat more than a desk and chair. You would have
started at the Manchester Office Building. correct? I started at 121
Seventh Street and then helped them move to Manchester then went to the
trolleys. One day I got a letter at East Liberty (where I started) to
report to H. Giessenheimer at the main office. There were five people who
got the same letter, myself, Art Carter also from East Liberty, a guy named
O'Leary who worked in Scheduling and two other operators one from Ross and
one from West Mifflin.  Like I said it was fun and I did the work well, but
I like field operations not an office. O'Leary went on to become the head
man at the Stubenville, OH transit operation with all of it's 10 buses.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM, George W. Gula <scranton-pa at comcast.net>wrote:

> I also began work in PAT's schedule Department in 1975 and moved to Rates &
> Service in 1977. I remained there until retirement in 2007. J. Harold
> Norris
> was the Department Manager and told me there was an agreement with the city
> to remove the tracks around the courthouse (Fourth, Ross and Forbes) as
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> as the loop near the PRR/nee Amtrak Station (Liberty. 12th, Penn) but he
> kept stalling because the loops sometimes were used for emergency detours.
> They finally were discontinued around 1979.
> George Gula
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-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park