[PRCo] Re: European Trams

[Donald Galt]

Splendid, evocative story, Fred.

> Was this an open letter to everyone?  I guess it is now.
> 
> Back in 1957 a friend of mine, name of John J. Bowman, Jr., went to England.  John was
> in his late 30s then; he is still living but only marginally.  I was his photofinisher
> at that time.  He came back with 15 to 20 rolls of Tri-X 120 ...  trams from Glasgow
> and Leeds and I think Edinburgh, but mostly British Railways steam.  Fantastic

Not Edinburgh, at least not in service after 16 Nov 1956. But are Mr. Bowman's pictures kicking around somewhere?

Anyway, your own account, from Met steam in the Chilterns to the Glasgow caurs, is a marvel of reminiscence. You must have known what you 
wanted to see and where to find it.

One little demurral: Waterloo must surely have been your station for Southampton, and Victoria the one for the Night Ferry.

Don

> 
> I went into the Army on October 8, 1958 (serial RA 13 639 997 ... they told us we
> would never forget it).  About three weeks or so before we graduated from signal
> school at Fort Gordon, we were all asked where we would like to be assigned.  What a
> farse.  I asked for Germany or those nike bases in Bethel Park as an alternate.
> Dozens of fellows went to Germany.  The guy in the bunk under me went to Bethel Park.
> I went to Fort Hood, Texas ... rattlesnakes, clay so hard you needed a chisel to get
> it off your books after a rain, cock roaches that flew through the barracks in
> V-formation in June.  I later came to accept Texas, and even to find beauty in every
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