[PRCo] Re: 1.>--PCCs___vs___lrvs__--__2.>--PCC___Trucks

[Boris Cefer]

Multiple sclerosis. I think he is still alive in New York or somewhere
around but his stuff is stored in one of his friend's basement. I assume it
is very difficult to access it.

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:47 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1.>--PCCs___vs___lrvs__--__2.>--PCC___Trucks


> You are correct, Boris.   Sy was the brains behind it and Harre was
> the editor.   I think they got together because Harre had connections
> with the man who was the publisher of the Pacific Railway Journal
> even before it was sold to Interurbans Press.   But I'm rather vague
> on that, and I cannot go back and reconfirm what Harre told me
> because he died after heart surgery almost twenty years ago.   Sy was
> the one who personally knew a lot of the TRC people including Thomas
> Conway.   It has been a long time too since I last saw him; I imagine
> if he is still living he would be pushing 90 today.     Last thing I
> heard, Sy was very sick and infirm ... implication was that he was
> not aging gracefully.
>
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
>
> > But Seymour Kashin, who eventually did not put the book together
> > (it was
> > Demoro who did it), has a large collection which probably contains
> > many
> > valuable items and info. But I have no way to ask him what he has.
> >
> > B