[PRCo] Re: KDKA Pitt Parade

[Fred Schneider]

Oh, s--t   Color me purple.

On Aug 30, 2007, at 6:51 PM, Bob Dietrich wrote:

> I think it is Matthew Barry aka Matt Barry
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> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:42 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: KDKA Pitt Parade
>
> The name Barry Matthew strikes me as someone I have not heard from
> before on the list?   Who is Barry Matthew?
>
>   Arrogant Fred Schneider the 3rd, sometimes fws3, sometimes signed  
> f3.
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> By the way, somewhere in Derrick's archives is background on all of
> us and photos of each of us.   I don't know how to retrieve it but
> someone can tell you how.   And Barry, if you haven't had a clue yet,
> there has been some material going back and forth this week about a
> list convention.   Many of us have been around long enough that we
> have met each other.  We've decided to have a little mini convention
> using the trolley museum at Washington PA as a base on November
> around November 16-17 or Friday-Sunday 15-17.  Right now it looks
> like we have about 10 of us planning to show up.   There are no
> definite plans on what to do yet, but it looks like motorcading parts
> of Pittsburgh Railways and West Penn Railways rights-of-way, some car
> operations at the museum, some dinners together, some bull
> sessions.   Maybe someone can talk Bob Dietrich into bringing his
> South Hills Tunnel / South Hills Junction module and some models ...
> should not be too much a problem.  That way we might even get some HO
> operation going.   Who knows, we might even get an East Penn Traction
> Club Table going.
>
> If I'm correct in thinking Barry Matthews is someone new to us, then
> why not tell me something about your self and post a digital picture
> so we can equate a name to a face.....
>
> ++++++++++
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> Oh, yes, I'm an old curmudgeon.   I remember low-floor, low-speed,
> single-end and double end Jones cars.  I rode them in World War II
> but I was a little young to remember the numbers but I remember the
> horrid gear noise.  But I vividly remember the postwar rush hours
> with high speed low-floor cars all over the city.   I remember the
> evening my dad passed the Pittsburgh Press advertising supplements
> across the table for me to read ... the ones announcing the delivery
> of the 1700 series cars.   So looking at movies of 1700s in starting
> their fourth decade of service ... well ... that really wasn't "my
> Pittsburgh."
>
> My Pittsburgh was a stinking dirty city filled with steel mills.  The
> Pennsy powered its commuter trains with G5s ten wheelers.  I can
> remember when the Bessemer and Lake Erie ran its first Baldwin diesel
> into North Bessemer in 1949, I think the number was 401.   That was
> even before the F7s, Derrick.   The engine house was filled with
> 2-10-4s and the Pacifics for the Greenville passenger local.   And I
> remember the Island Queen blowing up and burning on the Mon Wharf.
> I photographed a B&O S1 Santa Fe going through the P&LE station on
> the prow of freight drag.   I stood on the bridge PAT uses now for
> light rail and photographed two B&O Pacifics backing in amid a cloud
> of steam and smoke to take the day passenger trains out for Buffalo
> and Wheeling / Kenova / Cincinnati - Louisville.
>
> Used to piss me off when Herman Rinke told me all those places he
> used to go that I did see.   Now I'm the old fart can do it!
>
> And someday you will do.
>
> Can you imagine someday, telling someone you bought a house for only
> $250,000.   When they're struggling to find a down payment on a
> starter home costing $2.5 million?   I guess in Los Angeles that
> starter home will be $25 million in another 50 years.
>
> It's fund getting old and being a curmudgeon.
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> On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:55 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>> Do you guys remember when KDKA-TV (if you lived in Pittsburgh
>> during the
>> 80's and 90's) used to re-run their old Pitt Parade films from the
>> 1950's?   I looked forward to these as invariably, there would be a
>> Pittsburgh Railways street scene, in the background, or sometimes as
>> part of the story.  I recall one Pitt Parade in particular that
>> showed a
>> scene of PCCs packed into Craft Avenue House, seemingly right up to
>> the
>> curbs on Forbes Avenue, as there was a Pittsburgh Railways strike in
>> progress.
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>> Here's one Pitt Parade film that was on youtube.  It has the usual
>> opening which featured a PCC in the snow.
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wenlyELs7QU
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