[PRCo] Re: Trolley book finds

[Bob Rathke]

Fred,

It's hard to say what I paid for the PCC book.  I filled several cartons
with timetables, flyers, magazine, annual reports and books - total cost
(based on inches of book thickness) of my purchase was $91.  The boxes were
so heavy that IRM allowed me to drive my car into the Museum grounds and up
to the bookstore so that I could load the cartons directly into my car -
they were too heavy for me to to carry to the public parking lot.  Based on
thickness, the PCC book cost me about 75 cents.

I also got three rail products catalogs that I wrote and produced for L.B.
Foster Company in 1971.  I had completely forgotten about these catalogs,
and I was glad to get them.

I don't think we'll see a book bargain day like this again.

Bob 5/2/04


----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 7:37 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolley book finds


> PCC is going for $80 to $140 a copy these days.  What did you pay?
>
> Bob Rathke wrote:
>
> > Today was opening day of the 2004 season at the Illinois Railway Museum.
The bookstore there acquired an incredibly large number of used books and
other paper items over the Winter, and so they were selling them at
extremely low prices in order to make room for more books on their shelves.
> > Paper items were being sold by the inch - $1 for a 1-inch stack of
timetables, books, or whatever would fit in a box. Some items were even
free - fantrip flyers going back to the 1930's, railway company annual
reports (including several from PRC in the 1950's), line maps, and
calendars.
> >
> > I filled a large carton with dozens of railroad timetables, magazines,
annual reports, and....a like-new copy of, "PCC - The Car That Fought Back."
> >
> > A good day at the museum.
> >
> > Bob 5/1/04
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