[PRCo] Re: Photos Available

[John F Bromley]

Wow, now we have eP-R, beats eBay.  Can I do this?  Same type of deal,
donation to PTM, strictly list interest???

JFB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 11:14 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Photos Available


>
>
> The following 8x10 photographs are available to the highest bidder as a
> set.  Minimum bid $50 to me plus a minimum second check for $10 made out
> to the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum as a donation.  They are all from
> copy negatives I made from prints in the PTM collection.  As far as
> quality is concerned, they are below my normal standards but equal to or
> higher than normal commercial standards.  Closing date November 20th.
> Cash in my hands before mailing, but not later than Nov. 30th.
>
> 1.  Pittsburgh 4801 as a two-man, single front door car in orange paint
> in service on route 22 Crosstown with company advertising on the car.
>
> 2.  Builder's 7/8 right side car 5500 in one-man two-man configuration
> with a Westinghouse automatic couper on the rear for towing trailers.
>
> 3.  Builders 7/8 right side car 5462.
>
> 4.  Interior rear, Pittsburgh experimental car 6002.
>
> 5.  Exterior, Pittsburgh experimental car 6002 at Bradley plant.
>
> 6.  Pittsburgh and Allegheny horsecar No. 12
>
> 7.  Citizens cable car 223 at Allegheny Cemetery.
>
> 8.  Altoona builders photo, exterior car 52.
>
> 9   Ibid, interior.
>
> 10. Altoona builders photo, exterior car 73.
>
> 11. Ibid, interior.
>
> 12. Southwestern Street Railway (or Philadelphia and Southwestern) 32, a
> former Third Avenue Railway Car, side of road jammed with people inside
> and out.  Pen and ink caption on original that I copied reads "Hog
> Island, Pa., 7-2-18.  Obviously the Hog Island shipyard was still open.
> The picture would no doubt be somewhere near the later later
> international terminal of the Philadelphia International Airport (before
> the current terminals a, b, c, d, e, f.
>
> 13. Southern Pennsylvania Traction Co. car 205 ... photo a tad on the
> dark side ... signed Highland Avenue ...  eight people hanging on the
> outisde.  Chester, PA 7-1-18.
>
> The originals for the two Chester area pictures are now at Arden ... I
> found them in the library at the Baltimore Streetcar Museum.  Apparently
> they were taken by some URE employee in 1918.  They were mixed in with a
> file of URE labor dispute pictures!
>