Biography

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

> Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

> I've got a class B CDL with passenger endorsement ... considered driving
> bus after I retired ... something different in life ... after working
> behind a desk, managing others,  trying to use gray matter, and taking work
> home with me, the idea of something that is over when you lock up the bus
> is appealing.

	Yes  --  that  WAS  an appealing part of the job.  And in spite of a
form of transportation being my hobby, I am able to totally forget
transit exists in SF even though the Judah car rumbles not more than
50-75-feet from my door!
	But now that I am active in the JLMB (produce the minutes) and am
active on the Overhead Design Committee as well as several other
committees, I  AM  taking work home with me  --  and I definitely don't
like it!

> I gave up when I discovered that the local charter operators
> pay about as much for drivers as McDonalds does for counter help.

	And passengers on charter service are quite often worse than city
transit!  I have heard some horror stories about charter service that
haven't happened even here in SF!  City transit usually pays much
better.

> > Charles Brown wrote:

> > OK, I'll throw in my two cents worth.  Since I'm the one with the least
> > experience with PR, I'll keep it short.  This may even be off-topic.

> > Born 1954 in Long Beach, CA, where I grew up in.  Lived in Cincinnati
> > from 1972-75.  Heard that they had a subway there.  Went down to a
> > station to check it out, waited for a train, but gave up after 3 years.
> > Was in Frankfurt, Germany from 1976-79.  Came back to Long Beach and
> > have been driving a bus for the local bus company since 1980.  My main
> > reason for joining this group is part of a covert operation to kidnap
> > everyone on the list, lock them in an abandoned Woolworth's basement in
> > Fresno, and keep them there until they write the definitive 3+ volume
> > history of Pittsburgh Railways with lots of maps, rosters, and
> > ancedotes.  Failure to comply will result in a lifetime membership to
> > the Orange Empire Railway Museum or getting run over by a speeding
> > Greyhound bus.  Most people opt for the bus.

> > Charlie

> > Charlesebrown at webtv.net

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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