[PRCo] Re: November Gathering

[Bob Dietrich]

I also would like to thank Ed and everyone at the museum for the great
weekend.  What stuck with me most was the way people, young and old but
mostly young, wandered in to watch the slides on Saturday night.  PTM has a
strong membership.

Grateful Fred and I also took a roundabout way home on Sunday.  We first
went to the Drake Loop for a look-see.  Fred's wife got the car at the loop
every day when in school and he had not seen it before.  I think he's seen
enough now.

>From there we went to Uniontown to see Ed W's "stuff" (I can't think of Ed's
last name).  Ed is a buyer and collector and not a seller, he just keeps
adding to the collection.  He has quite a collection of small cars like
Crosley's, all in some sort of disrepair.  He also has a bunch of
streetcars, all in a state of oxidation.  And a lot of anything you could
imagine.  The upside of that visit was my first (and I believe Fred's first)
entrance into a West Penn 700 car.  That thing is big, impressive, and
falling apart.  It is too bad that his car and the PTM 700 couldn't be
somehow blended into a refurbished monster car.  It would be something to
see.

>From there we drove to my place and Fred went to see Charlie Grant's
Wilmington to DC Pennsy layout on the way home - he hasn't been heard from
since.

Bob 

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Mark
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Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:06 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: November Gathering

  Ditto.  My only regret was that a few people closer to PTM couldn't join
us. Although I've met Dennis and Ray, I've never met Matt.
  I got to operate 1711 so I'm one happy camper!