[PRCo] Interviewing the Experienced....

[Ken & Tracie]

Harold Geissenheimer wrote:


> Greetings
> The Western Railway Museum at Rio Vista has a program
> of interviewing their older members on tape.  I attended
> a one day seminar out there on how to make the interview.

That sounds like a super idea. I have a friend who volunteers as an
information clerk at work. He is pushing ninety years of age. He was a
P.E./M.C.L. motorman, then a motorman/bus driver for LAMTA. At one point, he
drove bus for a subsidiary of MoPac.

He feels he's too old to take a car trip to OERM to meet with the members
and few of the OERM guys really want to come to Las Vegas. One OERM member
asked me to take a tape recorder over to his house, "turn it on and let him
ramble." That didn't sound very appropriate.

He did share a few stories about how rough some of the Hollywood cars were
towards the end of their service life on the "subway lines." For example, he
mentioned that the air compressor rings were so worn on some cars that oil
bled into the lines and even seeped through the brake stand. Not a very
comforting thought when heading downhill during rush hour...

K.