[PRCo] Re: PTM 4145 made YouTube already

Tue May 19 13:09:32 EDT 2009

They come there because the corporation has gone to great lengths to  
make them want to come.   Scott Becker would be one of the better  
people to address how to get young people involved.  He does schedule  
days each year when he invites the community to come and see what  
volunteer opportunities are available.   Among other things, we serve  
as a place when high school kids can put in community service time  
that some schools require these days to get a diploma.   Some of them  
find they like us and stay on.   I've worked with the same teen age  
(15-16 year old) female elf at Christmas time for two years and she  
brings a lot to the table.

I was once talking to Dave Hamley.   I asked him why I was always  
able to count 35 to 48 percent females at any of the museum social  
functions such as the award dinners.   Dave thought for a moment and  
responded, "I guess it's because no one told them they didn't  
belong."   We have a female educator, a female motorman/conductor  
instructor, a female serving as the store manager and events  
coordinator.   One of Bruce Well's daughters is on the board of  
trustees.

I am familiar with a museum where a rather nice man of African decent  
joined us and after a year he disappeared.   I later discovered that  
one the members of the board of trustees called him a Nigger.   I  
remember a man of similar complexion at PTM who died of a heart  
attack.   Afterward someone put of a wreath and memorial to him in  
the substation.   He was simply one of us.

I think you can go a long way if you wish to make people feel wanted,  
needed and comfortable.

On May 19, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> NICE!    What a beautiful car.   Watching this makes me appreciate  
> just how much hard work PTM does.   So glad to see younger  
> volunteers coming into the mix.
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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: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:07 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PTM 4145 made YouTube already
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> Then try this link:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dbeJFfWkC4&feature=related
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> fws
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> On May 19, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
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>> The first link is to an LVT film.
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>> In the walkthrough episode, be aware that I read the controller type
>> incorrectly...it's a K43 model, to handle 6-motor trains.
>>
>> Ed
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
>> Schneider Fred
>> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 9:37 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] PTM 4145 made YouTube already
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>> Two youTube videos of 4145.   Ed Lybarger is in the interior view
>> walking around in a blue shirt.
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzuSoljeSPU
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>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Hp9DqCVyDk&feature=related
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>> I have always maintained that many of us on this list are friends.
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>> In the meantime there are some health complications.   The
>> cardiologist tried three weeks ago to insert a stent into one of my
>> coronary
>> arteries but by the time we was able to do it, the artery in
>> question had
>> become so occluded that the procedure was analogues to trying to
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>> basketball into a garden hose.  It just could not
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>> (But it
>> sure as hell beats what's in second place and if I ever want to  
>> get to
>> Beijing to try a scorpion for dinner, I guess I
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>> can worry about the pinched sciatic nerve.
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>> Fred Schneider
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