[PRCo] Re: 1700-series PCC Interurban TrolleyCars

[Boris Cefer]

You forgot to mention outsiders :-)

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 8:52 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1700-series PCC Interurban TrolleyCars


> Phillip:
> 
> Probably the only youngster on the list is Derrick Brashear, the list  
> manager and he is not in his mid 30s.     I'm 67.   I think John  
> Swindler is close to 62.   I first saw Holland running the brand new  
> Boeing cars at an ERA convention in San Francisco about 1980; I'm  
> guessing he is pushing 60.   Lybarger, like myself is retired.   Bob  
> Dietrich retired last year.  Rich Allman has past 60 but he likes  
> medicine so much he talks about continuing to practice until he is  
> 75.   Herb Brannon was a motorman for PAT when the PCCs were still  
> running ... way back when ... I think I remember him saying he was  
> there when 1600s were still running.    Jerry Matsick remembers the  
> thermal inversion that killed all those people in Donora under a  
> blanket of Smog almost 60 years ago.    Bob Rathke posts pictures he  
> took in the very early 1960s and perhaps late 1950s in Pittsburgh ...  
> he is still working but I make him about to be middle 60s.  Ken  
> Josephson is a spring chicken with a 12-year old daughter.   Mark ...  
> I guessing about my buddy Mark but if I had to lay money I would say  
> 45.   But then I never was a good judge of age.
> 
> Now you can all come back and call me a son-of-a-b.
> 
> After all guys, if we knew Pittsburgh Railways, none of us can be  
> young.   The exception was Derrick who started the list because he  
> wanted to learn from the rest of us.
> 
> Fred 3