[PRCo] Re: November Gathering (my usual late entry)

[Fred Schneider]

Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did.    F3

On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:27 AM, Frederick J. Sauerburger, M.D. wrote:

> Now that I've reopened my email, I'll just echo all of the kudos to
> Ed and the museum for a great trip.  I wasn't sure that right-of-way
> chasing was going to be very rewarding for me, but I certainly
> enjoyed the stops and up-close encounters with the industrial
> archeology on Saturday 's West Penn jaunt.  Thanks to Perfesser Fred
> III, I got to familiarize my self with operating Phila
> 78------initially scary but a great experience.  The evening slide
> presentations were GREAT.  As Bob mentioned, I started my Mark
> McGuire style abutment photo collection with the West Penn bridge and
> Drake loop.  Thanks to Jim for the handouts and schedules, to Herb
> for the goodie bags , and or course to the Chief Systems Coordinator,
> Ed for all the logistical planning and handouts.
>
> See yinz soon, I hope,
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> The Grateful Fred
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> At 06:38 PM 11/20/2007, you 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!
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