[PRCo] How far off TRACK can we get????

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

You have a captivating writing style, Mr.Brannon.  The information
on Shaker is most informative and interesting isn't it.  I know of
the system but not the details un til now.  I hope you share more
as you are able.

A very interesting pose of your feline scratching its forehead isn't it.

Phil


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On Wed, 7/17/13, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PRCo] How far off TRACK can we get????
 To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org>
 Date: Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 7:46 AM
 
 I drove to Cleveland last Friday to
 get my hair cut...........haven't
 located a barber yet in Pittsburgh who can cut a flat top to
 my liking.
 Then drove to Cuyahoga Falls to the  Mickey Thompson
 tire company
 headquarters so they could look at my new tires and explain
 why there are
 blemishes on them. They took care to that to my liking and
 got the
 "markings" off the tires, especially considering the price
 of Mickey
 Thompson light truck tires. Then drove back to Pittsburgh.
 
 Monday and Tuesday a buddy of mine came to visit Pittsburgh.
 He is a Lead
 Ramp Agent for American Airlines at Cleveland Hopkins
 airport so I figured
 he would fly (free for him) from Cleveland to Pittsburgh.
 He
 drove...........he said it wasn't worth all the b.s.
 involved and he would
 be here quicker by driving. He has about the same opinion as
 Derrick as to
 the way the airlines treat the passengers.
 
 Fred-----what do you mean by "green and red tailings" on the
 Cleveland
 streetcars? Also, you had mentioned that you had ridden the
 "one" remaining
 "Peter Witt" train on the Shaker Rapid. Must have been a
 dream.........SHRT
 had no Peter Witt trains running in 1959, or for that matter
 in any year.
 They had two (2) "Center Entrance" trains which ran during
 rush hours
 inbound in the morning and outbound in the evening on the
 Van Aken line.
 The car numbers of these last two (2) (non-PCC) trains were:
 Train 1, cars
 1, 2, 6, 11, & 12 This train had "Cable MU couplers".
 Train 2, cars 17, 18,
 22, 25, & 26 This train had "Button MU couplers". Both
 trains were
 officially retired from service on November 2, 1959. They
 both continued,
 however, to be put back in revenue service for special
 events and some rush
 hour service for several months after that date. Also, car
 27 had been
 retained as a spare but was seldom used. The only real
 "Peter Witt" cars to
 be used on SHRT were Cleveland Railway 4050 and 4051 used
 briefly in 1935.
 Also Cleveland Railway articulated Peter Witt 5014 was
 tested but had a
 hard time making the tight loop in the Terminal Tower
 station. Those were
 the only three actual Peter Witt type cars to run on SHRT.