[PRCo] Re: Christmas at PTM.

[Jerry Matt Matsick]

Fred - thank you for the "Christmas 2007 at PTM" picture.   Makes one wish they still were
back up in good ole PA!    Sounds like it was alot of fun plus enjoying operating the
Streetcars!
Thanks
--
>From the River City by the Sea! 
Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
"Jacksonville" 



-------------- Original message from Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>: -------------- 


> For those of you who never get a chance to get to Pittsburgh at 
> Christmas time ... here is the crew of Santa Trolley at the 
> Pennsylvania Trolley Museum on the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Talk 
> about Featherbedding. Did you ever see a seven person crew before? 
> Santa this year was Charlie Fife, who owns a moving a storage company 
> up the road from the museum with branch offices in Harrisburg and 
> Philadelphia. Charlie was also the president of the museum in 2007. 
> 
> I cannot remember the name of the male elf on the right nor the cute 
> 15-year-old female elf on the left. But who says we don't try hard 
> to get young blood in our museum. Those kids worked all weekend and 
> did a great job. 
> 
> The girl who looked sweeter in the green sweater is Briana; she never 
> once failed to get a round of applause for her rendition of Twas a 
> Night Before Christmas. That 20-something is fabulous. They ought 
> to clone her. 
> 
> The man with the billboard on his hat advertising instant photos for 
> $2.50 is Art Ellis. Artis possibly the last of the charter members 
> of the Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club. He is 88 and when they had 
> a birthday party for him this year, the candles set off the smoke 
> detectors! He is one fabulous man to work with. In the real world 
> he was a schedule writer for Pittsburgh Railways. 
> 
> The trainman on the right front is Carl Weber. This may be his 
> second year at PTM as an operator but his badge and membership number 
> goes back more than ten years. And the other trainman on the left 
> is Fred Schneider. Normal procedure is simply to trade the handles 
> back and forth every other trip, that is you work as a motorman one 
> trip, conductor the next, then motorman, then conductor. Some days 
> you get a trip off for lunch, some days you get a candy bar out of 
> the machine. 
> 
> Those kids made this probably the most enjoyable year I've had out of 
> the last fifteen. 
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