[PRCo] Re: SMOKEY REMINDER

[John F Bromley]

Aw gee shucks

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 7:28 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: SMOKEY REMINDER


> 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
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> -----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
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> 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.
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