[PRCo] Fwd: Llanarch photo1

[Fred Schneider]

I have forwarded Rich's comments to the group since he is not a  
member and cannot do it.
Rich is one of my oldest surviving friends in this hobby ... met him  
at Franklin and Marshall College back about 1962.   He went on to  
help people medically as well as take pictures of trolleys and to do  
crazy things like try to keep the East Penn Traction Club on the  
straight and narrow.   Whenever I ask him when he is planning to  
retire from medicine, I get an answer somewhere in the far distant  
future ... somewhere around age 75.   He seems to have as much fun  
helping people as he does with trolleys.    His comments about PST  
are probably dead on; I know he has done a lot of reading in local  
papers about the Pennsylvania Railroad versus PST.


Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Richard Allman MD" <allmanr at einstein.edu>
> Date: August 25, 2006 2:18:55 PM EDT
> To: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>, <pittsburgh- 
> railways at dementia.org>
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Llanarch photo1
>
> cannot comment without seeing the picture, but I think I remember the
> sketch and that Fred is right-it did look like a Pittsburgh car. A lot
> of artistic license. Car probably should have been Jackson and Sharp
> unless it was the 1897 view where single truckers-maybe Brill? Need to
> check. the scene I'm almost certain everyone is het up about was the
> famous Battle of Llanarch when in the dead of night, P&WCT crossed the
> Newtown Sq. branch. Turnede out that incursion saved the branch, since
> its largest customer was P&WCT for coal deliveries for power  
> generation.
> the incursion also solidified Alexander Cassatt's hatred of streetcar
> companies.
>
>>>> Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> 08/25/06 11:07 AM >>>
> I'm curious why the P&WCT car at Llanarch (contesting the right of
> way with the Pennsy's Newtown Square Branch) looks more like a
> Pittsburgh Railways 3700 than any car that PST / P&WCT ever owned.
>
> Seems the artist understood generic trolley just as a wonderful local
>
> Chinese artist and waiter understands generic flowers.
>
> On Aug 24, 2006, at 7:21 PM, DF Cramer wrote:
>
>> Here are the photographs from Llanarch where the Philadelphia &
>> West Chester
>> Traction Company and the PRR battled it out over the crossing in
>> 1895.  The
>> painter was not quite finished when I took these shots on PA Route
>> 3 in
>> Haverford Township in early August.
>>  DF Cramer
>>
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