[PRCo] Re: Roster -- Book -- PRCo -- http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/carlist.htm

[Derrick J Brashear]

--On Sunday, April 15, 2001 08:40:18 AM -0700 Jim Holland 
<pghpcc at pacbell.net> wrote:

>
>> Charles Brown wrote:
>
>> Sheesh, you make one little suggestion...
>> For the record, I'm 46 and have lived on the west coast for most of my
>> life.  If I had any memories of Pittsburgh, I wouldn't be bugging you
>> guys to write a book on it.
>
> 	As has been mentioned here previously, there are 2-different parties
> working on a Pittsburgh book(s)//volume(s):::::::

At least 2


> 	I think that Greg hit the nail on the head on this one - the system
> still existed - part of our  *inhumanity*  is we are not interested
> until something has disappeared - and then we lament that little was
> saved!!

The Shaker Heights system still exists and they have a rather nice book.

>> You're right about the lack of interest in a PR roster
>> outside of the Pittsburgh area, but I think that is because no one has
>> promoted the idea that PR had anything of interest on a national level.
>> It seems criminal that the definitive PR work is a 32 page reprint of a
>> couple of magazine articles (although it is an excellent book).
>
> 	WHICH  book is this, please?!?!

I assume Tom Parkinson's book, which you obviously know of:

> 	Rosters were published in a number of places - the most accessible was
> the trilogy of articles written for the British 'Light Railway Transport
> League' by Tom E. Parkinson and assembled into booklet form under the
> title  *The Street Railways of Pittsburgh, 1859--1967.*  This is offered
> thru PTM but might be in reprint or update now.

> 	And I think much about the consolidation of all the independents was in
> that  *course*  by PRCo for managers which some of us bought from Ed
> --  and is even in the McK book, so do we really need it again??

Maybe, in a more refined form. Maybe not.

> 	Everything and anything has a negative side

Getting out of bed in the morning, for instance. Hence my wait for 
afternoon to strike;-)

-D