[PRCo] Re: Interurban track remains/ row

[John Swindler]

Don't most people, including railfans, work a Monday-Friday shift?  Which is 
another way of supporting Fred's last paragraph.

JS


>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interurban track remains/ row
>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 10:22:02 -0400
>
>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:
>

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