Todays trivia

[brathke at juno.com]

Fred,

Kodak Pony IV cameras show up on ebay and in good condition sell for
around $10.  I believe that the Pony IV was one of the last (maybe THE
last) adjustable 35mm camera made by Kodak.

Yes, I knew Julian Bernard, and exchanged B&O photos with him and his
friend Eileen Wolford in the mid-1960's.  They took good, large negative
B&W photos.  I believe that both of them worked in the advertising
department at a steel company in northwestern Ohio.  I didn't know about
his trips to photograph B&O structures at that time (1964), but that year
I was independently doing the same thing in Western Pennsylvania.  My B&O
photos are on the Fallen Flags website, and Julian's collection is now at
the B&ORR Histoical Society in Baltimore.  His photos regularly appear in
the Society's magazine, The Sentinel.  I believe that some of his
Pittsburgh area B&O photos include views of trolleys.

Bob 9/20

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On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:09:31 EDT Fredbruhn at aol.com writes:
> I enjoyed Bob's bio. and wish I still had my Kodak pony.  Bob, do you 
> 
> remember or have heard of Julian Bernard of Shelby, Ohio.  His B&O 
> HO models 
> were featured in a MR article in the late 50's, but he and two other 
> men took 
> on the task of recording on film the B&O, buildings, equipment, 
> motive power, 
> everything.  One was in Balt., Julian in Ohio and I have no clue 
> where the 
> third man was nor any idea where the collection is today.
> 
> Back on the subject, I enjoyed the conversations on the various 
> shades of red 
> and cream for the PCC's, and now will use the Polly S whisker yellow 
> (crream) 
> and signal red, but go very lightly on the grime.
> 
> Now my question is, with Bob's description of his early years on the 
> 5 line 
> riding 
> "the orange" double end cars, what color do we use to approximate 
> the 
> Pittsburgh color for the double end cars?
> 
> I have a few West Penn questions too, but I'll wait for Fred III and 
> Ed 
> Lybarger to return on those.  And.....it can get cold in the winter 
> around 
> here, but again the past two have not been bad, and that is the best 
> time to 
> go looking for trolley lines.
> I'll bet Jim Holland could tough it out for a few days when he got 
> deep in 
> Fayette county with an expert guide like Ed Lybarger.
> 
> For those of us who will never get enough West Penn, let me 
> recommend a book 
> I jjust got from a lead by an ex Filbert resident who remembers the 
> West 
> Penn.  (He is planning to draw up for me the line through 
> Buffington, 
> Filbert, New Boro and New Salem so I can share that with you).  The 
> book is 
> "Patches of History" by (late) Regis M. Maher, M.D. of Fayette 
> County.  It is 
> the 1920's and 1930's: Heyday of Fayette County Coal and Coke in 
> Pennsylvania.  One chapter on WP, but the book hits every patch on 
> the 
> timetable.  Most interesting.  It was recently reprinted by his  
> long time assistant.  It can be bought from Barbara R. Ventura, 6 
> Sylvanus 
> Avenue,
> Uniontown, PA. 15401.  Cost is $25.00 post paid.  Cost is high 
> because the 
> run was small.  She told me she ran another run because of 
> continuing 
> interest.  The good Doctor died in late 1999.  You will be amazed 
> how the 
> name "patch" originated.
> It talks about the Railroads, life in the patches (towns as we call 
> them), 
> etc.
> 
> I have a photo someplace of a 1700 on Route 40 and I'll try and dig 
> it up to 
> see if it is a GE car.
> 
> We need to keep open the questions Jim asked about West Penn on 
> electric 
> turnouts and interior colors.  The one shot I have looking to the 
> end from 
> about 
> 4 seats back looks like finished wood on the ends or perhaps it is 
> the sheet 
> metal painted, window supports are wood, finished in a walnut/grime 
> combination andseat backs look like black/red/brown splotchy leather 
> or 
> vinyl, probably leather.  Hand holds look white, and ceiling does 
> look like a 
> dark ivory, but can't see much of it.   
> Ed. S. has promised us some shots of 722 for information.  I sure 
> don't 
> remember it when we were there tarring the roof in 1959 or so.  I do 
> remember 
> a  pile of seats and 
> amusment part "stuff" stored inside.  If I remember correctly, PRMA 
> took the 
> seats
> from the three cars stored there and put them in 722 as this is the 
> car the 
> museum had picked, but that may be stretching my memory.
> 
> Jim - find a good Army/Navy surplus store and get some long johns 
> and join us 
> this winter for our WP adventure.
> 
> Fred Bruhn 
> 
>    

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