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

[Bob Rathke]

I knew Bill Gwinn in the 1960s, and have many of his PRC photos.  In
addition to the location and date, he was noted for writing the exact time
of photography on each of his photos.

I occasionally hear from a couple of people who were involved with the
Museum (then, PERC) in the late 1950s, but they are no longer interested in
trolleys to the extent they once were.

I continue to use Kodachrome film for my slides, and have Skylight filters
on my lenses, but I use them mainly to protect the front lens surface.  I
tried Ektachrome in 1960 for the higher film speed, but within a year those
slides experienced drastic color shifts and so I switched back to
Kodachrome.

Bob 10/13/01

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 9:29 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 3-car fantrip from Pittsburgh to PRMA Washington


>
> 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
> > >
>