[PRCo] Re: PSSST - WANNA BUY LOUSY PICTURES?

Harold Geissenheimer transitmgr2 at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 28 18:58:57 EST 2003


Greetings

I met Felix after the war.  He lived in South Jersey at F?????

He published several books on street car history.
Does Arden have any?

Harold Geissenheimer

Fred Schneider wrote:

> You're as bad a name dropper as I am!
>
> You mentioned Felix Reifsnyder ... we worked for the transit system in Manila,
> Philippines into the late 1930s or early 1940s.  I'm not sure that he didn't
> return to the states because of an illness.  Felix worked as an engineer for the
> Office of Defense Transportation during World War II, which explains the
> statement about him shutting down a line in Wheeling.  ODT regulations during the
> war prevented conversion of rail properties to bus principally because of an
> extreme shortage of rubber for tires.  It was my understanding that gas rationing
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