[PRCo] Re: November Gathering

[Fred Schneider]

Glad you got home OK.   Nice meeting you.   Look forward to seeing  
you at the Second Annual Gathering.

On Nov 21, 2007, at 8:20 AM, Howard Andrews wrote:

> 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
>
>