[PRCo] Re: MULTIPLE CARS AT ONCE

[John Swindler]

No, your not the only one.  There definitely must be a transportation gene 
within the human gene pool. <g>  After all, my great grandfather turns up in 
the Nevada RR book on your bookshelf.

John


>From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: MULTIPLE CARS AT ONCE
>Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:54:35 -0400
>
>
>Am I the only one who calls it an inherited disease?  Dad built 00 gauge
>models back when one built everything including the permanent magnet DC
>motor.  He once remembered having received a letter from Albert Kalmbach
>claiming a new magazine was about to be published.  He told dad that, if
>he chose to subscribe to Model Railroader, Kalmbach would appreciate
>cash because his bank charged three cents to cash a check.
>
>Dad took a lot of pictures but trains and trolleys were secondary.  But
>there was one negative of a Bombay roofed car in Lancaster, Ohio.  He
>claimed he went there because someone he knew in Marietta told him about
>that ancient fleet.  I know where all the Mon-West Penn routes ran in
>Marietta, Ohio ran because dad showed me.  I still have two long reels
>of 8 mm movies ... one of the most boring scenes is a goes-on-forever
>string of oil tank cars rolling through Irwin during one of his lunch
>hours in the War.  But I can't project it ... gave the projector to
>PTM.
>
>Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> >
> > ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> >
> > > Ran into a goal post
> > > headfirst when I was in Jr. high . Maybe that did it  !
> >
> > Had I not rolled off the rear seat and hit my head on the sill plate of 
>my
> > Dad's Impala when I was about one year old (my Mom was reaching for the
> > diaper bag less than a foot away from me), I'd probably be a normal,
> > intelligent, white collar person with no interest in traction. ;-)
> >
> > Ken J.
>


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