Cars on tracks...

[Fred W. Schneider III]

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 slide.

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.

It was a lot more common that we would like to believe.



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