[PRCo] Re: the early years of PERC

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

Hi Mr.Bruhn!


The operative word here is  'club'  --  Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club.  Just guessing here but  'assume'  a  'club'  cannot have tax exempt status thus the change to PRMA.


Phil



----- Original Message ----
> From: "Fredbruhn at aol.com" <Fredbruhn at aol.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 4:54:13 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: the early years of PERC
> 
> I guess it is time I throw my two cents worth in.  I joined up  indirectly 
> about 1958, and I may have even paid dues that early.  I only  remember Redman, 
> Bowker, Scanlon, Bartley, and Rinney Galbreath as regular faces  at  the 
> meetings at the Y on Wood Street.   Harry Bartley would  sit at a small desk 
> just 
> inside the room assigned to the meeting and have his  photos for sale.  1138 
> was Dick Bowker's decision, his car, but I can't  tell you why he picked that 
> car.  Did 1138 run on Ardmore as that is where  Dick lived, perhaps still does.  
> 
> Other youngsters who would show up  included John Baginsky and Rick Hannigan. 
> John was active at Arden but  didn't survive a back operation about 1960.  I 
> think Galbreath bought  M1, which John Wilkins sometime later rear ended with 
> the West Penn loco or  another car.  Rinney was a story in himself.  Lived in 
> Taylorstown, Pa  and played the ladies within his own age group.  I heard he 
> finally found  one with money and I never saw him  again.  As Ed said Brown 
> owned  3756 and lived in Phila. by 1958 or so.  I wasn't aware that Scanlon was  
> 
> part of that ownership.  In 59 or 60 Rick, John and I went with Scanlon to  
> visit 722 and do some roof  
> patching wherever it was near Fairchance with 2 other cars.  They were  
> sitting side by side at a small amusement part and we drove the alternate main  
> line and could see the slag ballast like the rails were still  there.   My brain 
> 
> also reminds me that 832 was the last car  painted by West Penn, but don't 
> take that to the bank unless Ed verifies  it.  
> 
> Fred Bruhn



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