[PRCo] McKinney Avenue restores another car

[Fred Schneider]

You might want to look at it first.  A lot of those former Boston cars were in pretty rancid shape.  



On Aug 4, 2013, at 6:23 PM, Richard Allman wrote:

> did not know that! Maybe I might just send them a few $$ toward its 
> restoration unless it's a near total loss.
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> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" 
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> They have one.
> 
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> 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"
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>> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 10:09 AM
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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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