[PRCo] Re: 3-car fantrip from Pittsburgh to PRMA Washington

[Fred W. Schneider III]

I started in 1952 and I'm still around too.  But not quite as around as
I was then.  Maybe more round, however.  But I'm going to keep running
just as long as I possibly can.   

Maybe I should clarify that a lot of the people on that trip were
already men.  I was 14. Most of the fans were in their 30s and 40s.  

Of the prime movers of the PRMA in those days, Bob Brown is dead.  Harry
Bartley died long before Bob.  Baginsky is gone.  Dick Steinmetz of Camp
Hill (near Harrisburg) was on that trip ... he died last year at about
age 98.  Bill Gwinn from Wheeling was taking a lot of those trips ...
he's six feet under and his house disappeared in the last year.  There
was a note I read yesterday about George Tucker not doing too well after
a stroke.  I don't have a current membership list in front of me, but I
imagine there are only two of the original PRMA (PERC) members still
around.  The kids from the 1960s and 1970s are the ones running the
museum now.      

The 2002 Arden calendar has a beautiful picture in Oakland in 1947 of a
crowd of Pitt and Tech students getting on a yellow car in the afternoon
to go downtown.  The youngest of them has to be 71 now and some will be
75.  

I see you also have several pictures in the new calendar ... I like the
snow on Liberty Avenue. One had to live there to get snow pictures ...
seldom did we have the good fortune of just being somewhere and waking
up to find snow.  That happened to me once in Niagara Falls ... I took
the first picture of a Niagara Junction motor in the snow and the
shutter on my Minolta Autocord jammed.  I note from the Glenwood Bridge
picture that you had a problem with too much blue in Kodachrome.  I did
too.  I commonly used a skylight filter for everything which cut down
some of the blue (but I was never totally satisfied).  The view in the
calendar at Keating is an example.  


Bob Rathke wrote:
> 
> Fred....
> 
> Although I wasn't on the trolley movement to Arden in 1954, I started taking
> rail photos in 1950, and I'M (emphasis) still around (I think).
> 
> I watched PRC trolleys in Washington, PA as early as 1952, but I didn't have
> my 120 box camera along then.  I was a Northsider (Spring Hill), and seldom
> ventured south of the Allegheny or Ohio Rivers until the mid 50s.
> 
> Bob 10/12/01
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 7:47 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 3-car fantrip from Pittsburgh to PRMA Washington
> 
> >
> > There were probably a hundred people on that fantrip.  Those pictures
> > are out there.  I've seen both color slides and black and whites.  That
> > trip happened in February 1954 ... 45 years ago.  The youngest people on
> > the trip would be over 70 today and most are dead.
> >
> > Macmarka at cs.com wrote:
> > >
> > > It was the photo of  3 cars on their way to PTM on the Drake trestle
> with a
> > > regular service PCC car underneath on the Drake loop. Do you remember
> this
> > > Derrick?  Thanks!                               Mark McGuire
> >