[PRCo] Re: SMOKEY REMINDER

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I picked this picture not just because it was razor-sharp (as are most of
John's).  It showed the biggest and best of what the area's steel industry
had to offer before the 1980s downsizing.  ET is still going, but none of
USS's other big mills -- Duquesne, National, Homestead -- are extant.  I
don't find the photo "gross," I find it a wonderful part of the historic
record.  Without the mill, the streetcar wouldn't have been there.  Without
that dirt and smoke, there would have been no economy.  And the colors are
beautiful!  How many days did you find in Pittsburgh with almost a
"Kodachrome Sky?"  The streetcar, frankly, was incidental!!

John's photos show the environment of the trolley, and that's my take on
what we should be publishing and educating about.  And now that we've
figured out how to get hi-res digital images directly to the printer, we
will be using more of his work on a regular basis.  He's been very good
about allowing PTM to reproduce his images in both calendars and museum
exhibits, and we thank him.

Ed



-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
rogertrolley.1 at juno.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 4:30 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] SMOKEY REMINDER



If anybody has seen the latest PTM calendar, you can see a real reminder of
what Pittsburgh had to put up with when the Steel mills were running full
blast in the pix on the cover by John Bromley at the Braddock Ave. plant of
Edgar Thompson Works of U.S.Steel. A real gross pix eh. Nice pix of PCC 1699
aparently on a fan trip.