[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

Sun Aug 4 19:11:08 EDT 2013

The McKinney d.e. PCC came from Trolleyville, not Seashore.

> From: allmanr at verizon.net
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:23:23 -0400
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car
> 
> did not know that! Maybe I might just send them a few $$ toward its 
> restoration unless it's a near total loss.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" 
> <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car
> 
> 
> 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
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> > To: "Western PA Trolley discussion"
> > <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 10:09 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >> *In Pittsburgh...The Paris of
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> >> *
> >> Let's Go Bucs
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