[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

[Fred Schneider]

They have one.


On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Richard Allman wrote:

> too bad one of thee-Dallas PCC's has not made its way to MATA instead of 
> languishing @ Seashore
> 
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> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" 
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> And, Herb, it overflows into all the other states because no textbook 
> publisher wants to produce two editions … one for the Texas Board of 
> Schoolbook Censors and one for the rest of the country.  So we all get 
> history rewritten to satisfy Texas.
> 
> I never got a decent U. S. History course until I took one through the 
> University of Maryland when I was in the army.   I still haven't had a good 
> World History course because our view on world history is our own history, 
> i.e. European.  We presume, in writing world history, that Africa, South 
> America and Asia do not exist.
> 
> You might like to read two books by James Lowen.   One is "Lies My Teacher 
> Taught Me" and the other is "Lies Across America" --- all those things you 
> are told on historical markers and at various tourist sights.   When I 
> picked up the second book, I looked to see first what might be included from 
> my own area.   It was there, a chapter titled "You came to see the house, 
> not hear about the man."   The people that preserved President James 
> Buchanan's home tell you all about the house; they forget to tell you he was 
> gay.   I'll leave you read it yourself to see what was missed.   Great 
> things like road signs telling about massacres … indians cause them … in the 
> case Lowen wrote about Mormons did it and then wrote the sign to blame it on 
> the native Americans.
> 
> http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/0743296281
> 
> And if you think Lowen is lying … I have a great friend, a college 
> professor, who was asked to write a history text for high schools.   After 
> he signed the contract, then the publisher told him who would review it for 
> accuracy … i.e. which women's group, which black rights group, which Spanish 
> activist group, etc.   In other words, he had to write it to please certain 
> groups and he had to pay them for editing his work too.   Fortunately, just 
> as he had finished chapter one, the publisher was bought out and they paid 
> him to get lost because they didn't want two competing lines of textbooks.
> 
> 
> On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
> 
>> 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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>> 
>> -- 
>> Herb Brannon
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>> *
>> Let's Go Bucs
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