[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

[John Swindler]

The specs on 754.  And how about those a/c motors???     
 
http://mata.org/754specs.htm
 
 
 
 

 
> From: hrbran at cavtel.net
> Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 22:23:50 -0400
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car
> 
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Pittsburgh-railways mailing list
> > Pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> > https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> *In Pittsburgh...The Paris of
> Appalachia<http://www.arc.gov/appalachian_region/TheAppalachianRegion.asp>
> *
> Let's Go Bucs
> 
> 
> 
> -------------- next part --------------
> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
> URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130803/863ddcff/attachment.html 
> _______________________________________________
> Pittsburgh-railways mailing list
> Pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways
 		 	   		  


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20130803/d2b7492b/attachment.html