<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Trouble with all this, Dwight, is that we are in our mid 70s trying to remember our youth and the people who knew it well are pushing up daisies. Wouldn't you like to go back and ask Jim Symes? I know I would like to be able to talk to people like Charlie Shauck (PRC Supt. of Power and Inclines) again … I think if he were living he would be about 105 now.<br>
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When I wrote the PCC books, I had access to a lot of records. I was told Sy Kashin, who did the other book, interviewed some of the older participants of the ERPCC but didn't have the paper records I had. He probably wished he had the paper so he knew what to ask. I knew what to ask but the people I wanted to ask were dead.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had the sole surviving employee of the Allegheny and South Side Railroad; the P&LE Society published the story and I sent him a copy. He died a few months later. Now, I found more information, and, well, too late.<br>
<br></div><div>Life's hard. <br></div></div></div></div>