[PRCo] Re: Anne X Alpern & Detroit

[bobrathke at comcast.net]

I also knew Ivan.  He lived on Mt. Washington, and in the 1950s and 60s he published a mimeographed monthly newsletter listing railroad locomotive rosters. I still have copies of some of them. 



He was also a regular letter-to-the-editor writer. 





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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 2:45:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Anne X Alpern & Detroit 

I knew Ivan, and he would have written that letter. Â He's been dead for at 
least a couple decades now. 

-----Original Message----- 
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org 
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Fred 
Schneider 
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:32 PM 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Anne X Alpern & Detroit 

I have no clue where this man is today ... probably pushing up daisies. 

I have seen a picture of a New Castle PA Birney car with a rubber stamped 
name on the reverse side ... Ivan W. Saunders. Â  The man wasn't without 
prejudice. Â  He was a railfan. Â  


On May 20, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote: 

> Note the comment in this March 1952 letter in response to Anne X. Alpern's 
usual tirade about streetcars - pertaining to Detroit re-instituting 
streetcars on their Woodward Avenue line because buses didn't work out. 
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2fYaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f00EAAAAIBAJ&dq 
> =streetcars&pg=5107%2C6060953 
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