[PRCo] Re: Trolley book finds

[Fred Schneider]

Those bargain's don't come around often!  Congratulations.

Bob Rathke wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >