[PRCo] Your Private Tour -- WINDBER -- PRCo Other Graveyard

[Holland, James B.]

>>>>> On Tue Jul 29 12:52:54 EDT 2014, D Brashear shadow at dementix.orgwrote:
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>>>>> Twenty years plus.
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>>>>> http://articles.philly.com/1993-10-04/news/25939078_1_trolley-business-vintage-trolleys-trolley-tours
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>>>> <b>On 2014-08-28 9:24, Holland, James B. wrote:</b>
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>>>> Payment for tour accepted through paypal, but cash preferred!
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>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzqiYIpRItU
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>>>> http://abandonedsteve.com/abandoned-trolley-streetcar-graveyard/
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>>>> http://abandonedsteve.com/
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>>>> Fixer-Upper -- copy and paste this one, including the whole line:
>>>> http://abandonedsteve.com/abandoned-trolley-streetcar-graveyard/#prettyPhoto[gallery]/34/
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>>>> Who says:  pantographs Do Not Dewire?
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgCPPeYmyKw
>>>> <b>Jim</b> 
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>>> /On 8/28/14, Herb Brannon <hrbraninpgh at gmail.com 
>>> <https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways>> 
>>> wrote: / /2. What was the purpose of someone amassing this very 
>>> large collection //of//PCC cars then letting them sit in the 
>>> elements, to rust away?/ 
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>> //On 8/28/14 10:03 PM, "Robert Netzlof" <rnetzlof at gmail.com  <https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways>> wrote:
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>> //Probably the same as the fellow up by Kane who acquired an ex-BR&P//caboose, a box car, and (I think) an RPO; then let them rot beside his//garage.
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>> //Big ideas, little forethought, tiny budget.
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>> //Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob/
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> /On Fri Aug 29 08:47:40 EDT 2014/,
> *George W. Gula* scranton-pa at comcast.net 
> <mailto:pittsburgh-railways%40mailman.dementix.org?Subject=Re:%20%5BPRCo%5D%20PRCo%20Windber&In-Reply-To=%3CD025EEA4.1318B%25scranton-pa%40comcast.net%3E> 
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> My guess is that this collector was another guy who wanted to 
> establish a trolley museum all by himself, then found out how 
> expensive and labor-intensive such an endeavor really was. There is a 
> lot of now junky cars sitting off I-70 in Ohio that were collected for 
> the ams reason. George Gula


Above are 2-reasons among many for collecting Trolleys.  Another is a 
'belief' in significant historic operations.  "Greed" is possible-but 
only an 'observation,' Not an indictment.  Other lists discuss this 
collection (presumably how a person here listed my URL 3+hours after I 
posted it here, in quote above!)  Giggling finds articles suggesting Ed 
had "an" innocence if not naivety but a real desire for historic 
restorations--more reading necessary to qualify such.  Personal effort 
is behind some equipment restorations.

<b>Ed worked with Kenosha on their project!</b>

Hindsight begs acerbic comments; the end is "known."  In 1960s-1970s the 
future was not known; some now decrying the effort as wrong were back 
then cheering.  Many are utterly vicious to Ed's project yet Ed saved 
what was doomed as scrap!  The end result in either case is identical!  
What is to moan and about what to be vicious?  NO One Hurt.

The following by <b>Jeff Marinoff</b> of Phil. (edited) includes info 
about Windber as well as Brooklyn and Buffalo; info needs confirmation.  
Branford now doing small scale what Ed did in quantity - storing PCCs 
for possible sale (earn cash for museum) recognizing they may be 
stripped and scrapped:

        ...Most Metka PCCs at Windber, PA, were cut up and scrapped.

        No, Metka RTA cars not the same Bob Diamond of Brooklyn
        purchased. Metka got Shaker Pullman PCCs.

        Diamond got TCRT SLCCo... PCCs [for] never built line Buffalo to
        Tonawanda, NY. Diamond basically abandoned 11-PCCs stored at
        Navy Yard.  Outfit that owns Navy Yard warned repeatedly to
        [move] PCCs. They scrapped them. The remaining PCCs Diamond had
        at Red Hook in Brooklyn have been removed by the Branford
        Trolley Museum, pending sale or scrapping. The PCCs are stored
        off-site, not at museum property.

<b>Jim Holland</b>