[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

Bob Rathke bobrathke at comcast.net
Sun Aug 4 11:04:25 EDT 2013


I continue to hear TV anchors and news reporters call the last car on a passenger train the "caboose". 

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From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
To: "pcc sr" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>, "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2013 8:39:14 AM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car 

As in there is no pill to wipe out stupid. 


On Aug 3, 2013, at 9:42 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote: 

> It is not uncommon for someone to call Prc and even WP Peter Witt Cars is it. 
> This seems to be more frequent in recent years while unheard of decades ago. 
> Apparently they heard this name and apply it to most anything on rails.  If this 
> trends continues the current Siemens cars will be labeled Peter Witt won't they. 
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------- 
> On Sat, 8/3/13, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote: 
> 
> Subject: [PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car 
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> Date: Saturday, August 3, 2013, 2:32 PM 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
> 
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