[PRCo] Re: Models

[Schneider Fred]

Welcome George.   Interesting to know that there is a transportation  
professional in our midst in addition to John Swindler.    And if we  
get too far off the deep end, you know where the delete key is but  
please do not be offended.

When we had a three day weekend get together at PTM in 2006, it  
included a school bus tour of parts of West Penn Railways and  
Pittsburgh Railways rights-of-ways, a day of playing with the cars at  
PTM, some nice restaurants and a lot of great fun.   And if we can do  
it again, I know that Ed's more recent tours have included the  
Stubenville (Ohio), New Castle and Sharon lines.   Twist his arm guys  
and maybe we can do it again this year.

There are some fabulous people on that list who will bend over  
backwards for others.   One of my favorite stories concerns the chief  
perpetrator of this list.   When my wife evicted me about 14 months  
ago, a man named Brashear asked me if I needed any "used" furniture  
because he was "cleaning out" his home in Trafford.   I said that if  
he happened to have a coffee table or a television table, I could  
them.   Derrick appeared a day or two later and 230 miles from home  
bearing two brand new tables.   His excuse was that he didn't have  
what I needed so he went to Ikea and bought them.   I simply thought  
that it was fabulous that he drove across the state to have lunch and  
dinner with me at a time when I was at one of my lowest points.     
Derrick is a very modest person but he deserves to be acknowledged  
for his generosity.

And he isn't the only person like that on this list of names.   I  
could name others but doing so could potentially embarass the  
recipients of generosity while making the donors feel good.   I will  
not do that.

By the way, if anyone wanted to hijack this list and lead it off into  
industrial archeology of a slightly different format, you might not  
offend Mr. Brashear.   For those who do not know him, one of  
Derrick's other interests is old factories or at least steel mill  
history.   He has dragged me through the Carrie Furnace in Homestead  
and to a lecture on Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore.   He went through  
the Sloss Furnace and told me I should see it so the next time I was  
in Birmingham, Alabama, I did.   It is one of the better steel mill  
museums.

The link is to Birmingham's Sloss Furnace.   Be sure to click on the  
"virtual tour."   It will you lead you to six different views of the  
museum ... 180 to 360 degree sweeps of different parts of the  
furnance from the engine room, furnaces from above and below, the  
staging room floor.   All sorts of interesting stuff.

http://www.slossfurnaces.com/media/html/home/sloss_story.php

Fred Schneider

On Dec 31, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Gray, George wrote:

> I live in Atlanta.
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> I was born in 1948 and lived in Pittsburgh until 1968 when I went to
> graduate school and army.
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> I rode the streetcar to South Hills High School and Pitt.
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> I have worked as a transportation planner, computer programmer, and IT
> manager at the State of Georgia since 1973.
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> I read the archives extensively before I joined the list.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> Schneider Fred
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 3:04 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Models
>
> George:
>
> Where do you live?   How ancient are you?   What is your
> background?   What do you do for a living?   How did you get
> interested in the list and the assumed subject of the list?  Derrick
> can tell you how to get into the archives.   Some of us put little
> biographies on the list several years ago.
>
> Fred Schneider
>
> On Dec 31, 2008, at 2:41 PM, Gray, George wrote:
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>> As a relatively new member of the list, I find the range of topics
>> very
>> interesting.  I wouldn't have known there was an earthquake in
>> Lancaster
>> otherwise.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
>> Schneider Fred
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 2:39 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Models
>>
>> But the list evolved, didn't it Ed., from a list of guys talking
>> about Pittsburgh Railways, to a list of friends who pretty much ran
>> out of things to say about PRC but who are still friends and who once
>> in a while still find something to say about Pittsburgh.   I was
>> amazed in 2007 by the number of guys from the list who journeyed to
>> Pittsburgh just to get together with each other and I would hope we
>> can do it again.
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>> On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:
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>>>>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Edward Skuchas wrote:
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>>>>> Have operating layouts in O scale trolley with overhead.
>>>>>  Both city and interurban.
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>>>> Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:
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>>>> Curious, since now a couple of you say that.
>>>>
>>>> How many of you model Pittsburgh Railways? I considered
>>>> modeling Johnstown Traction, started acquiring the equipment
>>>> 20 years ago, and have moved on
>>>> from HO, making it all sort of irrelevant now.
>>> ..
>>> I model "O" PRC with side interests in WP and JTC  ( I 'thought'
>>> that's what this list is all about;  I learned about this list
>>> from my
>>> modeling interests.)  Layout under construction;  no photos yet.
>>> Did some work on planning track intersections just yesterday;
>>> construction of same to start early in the year.
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>>>
>>> Phil
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