[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

[Herb Brannon]

All over Texas they have a habit of "rewriting" history to suit themselves,
including textbooks for use in the Texas public schools. I'm sure they
think they have a gosh-darn Peter Witt operating.............all the rest
of the world is wrong.


On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> We had a discussion here about certain cars in Cleveland not being Peter
> Witts….
>
> Well here is a video tape of a car they are calling a Peter Witt and "sure
> a God made green apples," it isn't.   It was at one time but when Dallas
> went one man, the center doors were received.   I would love to see proof
> that Mr. Witt collected royalties.
>
> The trucks are not right on the rebuilt car either.   Originally it had
> Brill cast frame trucks with coil springs over the journals and the
> bolsters resting on elliptical springs hanging from the frame cord.   These
> cars never had MCB trucks in revenue service.
>
> But it looks nice.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuTiycs88ME
>
>
>
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