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<font face="Arial,Helvetica">We all have our favorite stories. Mine
was getting on a route 40 car not too long before the line was abandoned,
and remarking to the operator at how surprised I was to see him on time
on a Saturday night. His response was something like, "Hrrrmph.
I'm one trip late." We got up on Grandview Avenue, and he went into
the restaurants trying to get a car moved. And I took the incline
back down the mountain. Bob Dietrich was here today and saw the resultant
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<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica">In our display several years back at Arden
which featured occupations within the railway industry, we mounted and
hung two pictures of the type being discussed today. One was an official
PRC snap used to show motorman how two men could lift an auto by the bumper
without needing a visit afterward to the Osteopath. The other showed
a truck driver, his helper, a motorman, and a conductor pushing a truck
off the tracks in Reading PA. In the latter case, one of the local
newspaper photographers there had his dad's negatives from the old man's
tenure with the Reading Times / Reading Eagle.</font><font face="Arial,Helvetica"></font>
<p><font face="Arial,Helvetica">It was a lot more common that we would
like to believe. </font>
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