[PRCo] Re: No pleasing some people

[Fred W. Schneider III]

I would have to say the model is in the style of many hand-made tin-can
models of its period. Nothing I would like to spend money on but PTM
would probably find a place to display it if they were given the model. 
There is a strong tendency to judge the past by the present, and, as
some of us have point out before, it doesn't work.  The model doesn't
compare to imported brass because there was no finely detailed imported
brass when it was built.  In faithfulness to the original, it reminds me
very much of a 1:24 model of a PRC 3800 that Bob Brown built and proudly
displayed on a card table at a public meet of the Pittsburgh Electric
Railway Club back about December 1953.  The model was crude but this 13
year old was captivated as it ran around and around and around in a
tight circle.  

If the man keeps trying long enough, someone will buy it.  Maybe $485 is
what he paid for it.

John F Bromley wrote:
> 
> Maybe he got confused or started out trying to build a Boston center
> entrance car and changed horses mid-stream!  This doesn't even qualify as
> junque!  Not worth $200 even - save your money for something good.
> 
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> From: <AProchek at aol.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 6:41 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] No pleasing some people
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