[PRCo] Re: Interurban track remains/ row

[Fred Schneider]

I'll try to remember Mark ... don't hold your breath.  Remember three museums
and a church get first digs on my time and I have a minister to whom I'm
going to have to scream ouch before he gives up.  Maybe I travel so much just
to get away.

Track removal makes interesting pictures but few railfans took those pictures
probably because to do so was an admission that their favorite mode of
transport really didn't work.   I know a fellow who photographed everything
that ever happened on Lehigh Valley Transit up to the last day ... erecting
snow fences, track renewal (it wasn't done often), replacing broken trolley
poles ... but never dismantling of the property.  I think his attitude was
not uncommon.

Finding something in Pittsburgh is even more complicated because it was a
filthy city.  The clean up started after WW2 but it really wasn't finished
until after the steel mills closed in 1982.  Anybody who lived there got away
when they could.  Most of the scenic pictures I have came not from the locals
but from one person here and another there ... people who looked at
Pittsburgh on their vacations.  You are probably looking for just the one man
who passed through at just the right time.

Mark McGuire wrote: