[PRCo] [Fwd: Re: Photos Available]

Jim Holland pghpcc at pacbell.net
Tue Nov 13 18:08:32 EST 2001


Good Morning!!

	My understanding of what Ed says is this:::

		Fine to make the offer on--list  --

	But.......ALL responses to offers should be via private--email to the individual making
the offer  --  and thus not on--list.

> Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> My personal opinion is that this is not really a sales forum and is thus not
> really the place for such offers.  But is may well be a place to announce
> the acceptance of private emails to receive such offers.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of John
> F Bromley
> Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:04 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Photos Available
> 
> 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!

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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
    "O"--Scale  St.-Petersburg Trams Company Trolleycars  &
        "O"--Scale  Parts  mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
        Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) http://www.pa-trolley.org/
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.nmra.org

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