[PRCo] Re: Another of 4398

[Dwight Long]

Fred

Certainly not on the Thornburg shuttle for which the car is side signed!

Art outlived his boss--maybe he will outlive us as well.  Long live Art, PERC/PRMA # 5 and without fear of contradiction, the oldest member with the lowest number!

Dwight

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  From: Fred Schneider 
  To: Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org 
  Sent: Thursday, 05 August, 2010 21:08
  Subject: [PRCo] Another of 4398


  Thought you guys might like one more picture of 4398 last weekend.     This shows the ticket holders who paid the $4 extra to tour the Trolley Display Building (a.k.a. Blimp Hanger) leaving the car at "Allison."     The man waiting for them is ageless ... that's Art Ellis, who worked for Pittsburgh Railways in the scheduling department and is now 90 years old.    He was giving the tour last Saturday.   
  I have to wonder if Pittsburgh Railways ever had this many people on a double-ended car after the trunk routes were all converted to single-end low-floor cars and the double-enders were relegated to transfer lines.   Maybe 99 or 59 in the rush hours.....   Perhaps.   

  The second picture shows Art just as he got out of his car to conduct the tour.   I wish I was in as good a shape today as he is at 20 years my senior.

  (And if a third link shows up, its the white space between these two photos.)



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