[PRCo] John Baxter

[Fred Schneider]

For those who are unaware ... one more of the original members of the  
Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club and the Arden Electric Railway /  
Pennsylvania Trolley Museum passed away on Saturday.   John Baxter  
was in ill health and had fallen age 98   Sadly, John Swindler, who  
knew Baxter as sort of a surrogate father when the Swindler and  
Baxter properties adjoined in Edgewood, had left Washington PA on  
Saturday morning for Portsmouth, Ohio for one last visit with John  
but arrived too late.   John thinks that the death of his wife Trudy  
last year had a lot to do with his failing health.

We credit Baxter for getting John into this crazy hobby.   There are  
pictures around of John Swindler on West Penn Railways fantrips at  
about age 5 because of the railfan next door.

In addition to his  involvement with the museum,  Baxter, like  
myself, Phil Craig, Jack May, John Swindler, Harold Geissenheimer and  
others who have passed on, was an editor of ERA Headlights magazine.