[PRCo] Re: Committee Work

[Boris Cefer]

You can hire me for Westinghouse files! :-)

B

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 9:31 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Committee Work


> As someone has spent my share of time prowling through PRCo records, I 
> have
> to completely endorse what Fred is saying.  That company must have kept an
> army of scribes with quill pens and green eyeshades on hand to keep all 
> the
> details.  The route histories are something Ollie Miller struggled with 
> for
> years, and he didn't make much headway.  Just the street name changes 
> could
> drive you crazy, let alone the temporary diversions.  And then there all 
> the
> discontinued routings to consider...like the north bank of the Monongahela
> River from Glenwood to Homestead, and trippers to mills and factories.
>
> Ask Dave Hamley how easy the roster has been, too!
>
> It has been embarrassingly difficult for me to assign work to volunteers 
> who
> have no knowledge of the system, simply because they don't know what 
> they're
> looking at or how to interpret it.  I have to give them such mundane jobs 
> as
> filing Westinghouse catalog sheets by style (model) number or entering 
> data
> from envelopes containing photo negatives into databases.  They get bored
> and I don't blame them, but how do I give them a quickie course in 
> something
> that took me 40 years of osmosis to learn?
>
> The company had departments with specialists in each.  We don't have that
> luxury, unfortunately.  Unless, of course, everyone moves back to 
> Pittsburgh
> and adopts one!
>
> Ed