[PRCo] Re: Various Press Articles Pertaining to the Railways

[Jim Keener]

I live in the city. I can go to the Carnegie library on a weekend to find and print them. I can then scan and ocr them as well.

Worst comes to worst we can take screenshots and ocr those to at least have the article text.

Jim

"Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:

>Fred
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>Another way of doing this, also time consuming but less so than scribing the whole articles, would be for  someone to go to whatever library is the library of record for the Press and print out the microfilm record of the article.  There is usually a charge for this but it tends to be moderate.  The job has been made much easier by the research which pinpoints the date of the article.  Much harder to go thru each paper day by day to find this stuff!  (Been there, done that, got the calluses on my butt).
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>Dwight
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Fred Schneider 
>  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
>  Sent: Monday, 19 July, 2010 11:14
>  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Various Press Articles Pertaining to the Railways
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>  Barry:
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>  A complete file of these in the PTM library would be useful.   However, since they have been blocked to prevent anyone from printing them, each one would have to be transcribed the hard way ... every single letter would have to be typed again.   
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>  Have you considered doing that?   Or is it something someone else (moi?) should undertake?
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>  Fred
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>  On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>  > 1956 - Fix steps to Glenhurst from Lougean Street, to catch 56 McKeesport streetcar
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GIQbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ik4EAAAAIBAJ&dq=56%20mckeesport&pg=7444%2C23119
>  > Sept 1955 - Letter to Editor - writer points out all of the PRW that could be utilized later for rapid transit
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P0cqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IE8EAAAAIBAJ&dq=56%20mckeesport&pg=5026%2C2030851
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>  > February 1952 - Route 59 Trolley Line Switches to Buses
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F0obAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lk0EAAAAIBAJ&dq=munhall%20trolley&pg=1727%2C4731860
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>  > July 1965 - Gilbert Love quotes Pittsburgh streetcar riding fan about what routes to ride, for the enjoyment of it
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tx0cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=L1EEAAAAIBAJ&dq=87%20ardmore&pg=7550%2C3925090
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>  > June 1965 - Streetcars viewed as big part of future transit system
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KUsqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PE8EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=5058%2C5675997
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>  > Jan. 1958 -  McKees Rocks Burgess hates streetcars
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3b4cAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E04EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=7359%2C304389
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>  > Jan. 1951 - Trolleys Winning Ice Storm Fight
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AUEbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aU0EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=2149%2C4974385
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>  > May 1953 - One way Fifth and Forbes thru Oakland, was tried in 1939
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kwMiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=o00EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=7310%2C1389625
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>  > March 1955 - Several Letters about how to handle the West End streetcars, and the new bridge
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B2AbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2U0EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=4860%2C843579
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>  > June 1959 - West End Trolleys Mourned
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iWw0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=B5YEAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=5364%2C629193
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>  > June 1959 - West End Buses Stalled in Traffic
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=k2w0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=B5YEAAAAIBAJ&dq=west%20end%20buses&pg=7565%2C3357324
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>  > Sept. 1959 - In defense of streetcars, with note to recent tie-up of new West End buses
>  > http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=90EqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z04EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=5206%2C2170181
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