[PRCo] Re: Anne X Alpern & Detroit

[Fred Schneider]

I'm not sure, Derrick, that it is a place where I want to go to photograph the light rail cars with two Nikons hanging on my neck.  


On May 20, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> And rail is coming back to Woodward.
> http://www.woodwardlightrail.com/
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> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I knew Ivan, and he would have written that letter.  He's been dead for at
>> least a couple decades now.
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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 Fred
>> Schneider
>> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:32 PM
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Anne X Alpern & Detroit
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>> I have no clue where this man is today ... probably pushing up daisies.
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>> I have seen a picture of a New Castle PA Birney car with a rubber stamped
>> name on the reverse side ... Ivan W. Saunders.   The man wasn't without
>> prejudice.   He was a railfan.
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>> On May 20, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>>> 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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> Derrick
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