[PRCo] Re: November Gathering

[Howard Andrews]

I've been quiet trying to recover from the gathering and then when I got 
back to Detroit it was bedlam.

I would like to add to Bob's thank you Ed for putting together the event.  
And, as always the folk at PTM made me feel welcome - eventho' I don't get 
there very often.  

And, I feel very much the 'old fuddy-dud' - I left PTM Saturday Night and 
drive straight home to Detroit - no fun side trips like Mark or Bob and the 
Grateful Fred. 

Hope to see everyone next year!

Howard

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:37:23 GMT, Mark McGuire wrote
> Isn't the gentleman's name in Uniontown Ed Mitchell?  Also, I told 
> Grateful Fred to look at the dementia photo archives. Awhile back I 
> posted the Drake Loop when it was being dismantled in 2000. The 
> photos are a little on the large side as I had no clue what I was 
> doing back then.  And to think, I could have gone through Uniontown 
> myself on the way home from Greensburg. I chose the long route but 
> managed to get a few abuttment pix as my reward.  And for Ed, I can 
> now explain where Sewickley St. is(where my brother lives). On rt. 
> 119 heading east, as soon as you pass the rt. 30 on/off ramp(traffic 
> light there), there is a left turn called Cribbs. It is up that 
> hillside where my bro lives.
> 
> -- "Bob Dietrich" <bdietrich at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> McGuire
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 3:06 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> 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!


Thanks,
Howard Andrews