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

[Herb Brannon]

Phillip,
I'll try Phillip to write more...........but you know I "make up" a lot of
this stuff  :-0
Also, Tiger (the Trolley Cat) always knows what to do !


On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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-- 
Herb Brannon
Back In The Burgh !
Let's Go Bucs



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