[PRCo] Re: Mark's comment

[John Swindler]

>Ken replied to
>
>Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > I think Ed Tennyson might be on the list (or if not he should be and he 
>is quoted from time
> > to time) ... Ed worked for Pittsburgh Railways in the 1930s, for 
>Milwaukee Electric Railway and Speedrail, for the City of Philadelphia's
> > transit division, and he retired as the Director of the Bureau of Mass 
>Transit Systems in the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
>


Try late 1940s for Pittsburgh Railways, then to Speedrail.  Think he was 
also at Kenosha Motor Coach rather then Milwaukee Electric (although may 
have been in same family), then City of Youngstown, then brought us the Budd 
cars, various commuter rail Operations, and the South Broad extension with 
City of Philadelphia, then to PennDOT, where with Gov. Shapp was 
instrumental in stopping state funding for TERL line, and instead we now 
have light rail, then was a consultant for quite a few years.  Also, may 
have been a transportation officer during WWII.

Ed's one of a number of people that I would like to place a tape recorder in 
front of, and then ask for their views on why things turned out the way they 
did in a lot of areas.  Harold G. is another prime candidate as the 
instructor for this sort of history lesson.  I owe both a deep thanks.

John

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