[PRCo] Re: 2011 Calendars

[John Swindler]

I was referring to my back and knees.  That's why I said I can feel it.
 
It also means that one must be careful reversing ends at PTM - walk a bit slower, instead of rushing, so that don't twist a knee.  Age also noticable dealing with car chocks.  To quote Chick "I've never been this old before".
 
Cheers
 
 
 
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 2011 Calendars
> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:56:39 -0500
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
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> It was set at 65 back before World War II, if you mean Social Security, because the average life expectancy at birth then was about 67. They expected to pay off on very few people. They did not expect it to rise into the middle 80s. 
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> The problem with setting it and forgetting it is simple. We expect it to become a perk. Look at French rioting when they ran out of money to pay for retirement at 60. 
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> It needs to be something reevaluated when we each of us begin our working lives based on actuarial tables then. 
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> Sorry about that political speech. 
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> On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:28 PM, John Swindler wrote:
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> > There's a reason retirement age was set at 65 - I can feel it. My advice to everyone else - stay young. 
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> >> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 2011 Calendars
> >> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:24:36 -0500
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
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> >> ACF-Brill and Marmon-Herrington trackless trolleys. My god are they names out of the past, you gray haired old codger. I remember riding them in places like Columbus and Wilmington and Philadelphia and Nawlins. and seeing them in Milwaukee and Chicago and Johnstown. And who made those TCs I rode in Brooklyn. Gee there were also some weird center steering wheel Pullmans in Atlanta that I rode. 
> >> Safe to tell this story now because the company is dead and the big boss is dead and it is just a real estate shell corporation today. And back when I was in college, there was a night man for Conestoga Transportation who worked with me at Sears Roebuck. On several occasions after the store closed I would go into the garage with him. He would work the pump rack fueling buses. I would pull them into the garage and park them for the next day and then walk back to the pumps and get the next bus. I had my share of fun with old look GMs and ACF Brills from the driver's seat. 
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> >> Do we have gray hairs John?
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> >> On Jan 4, 2011, at 7:16 PM, John Swindler wrote:
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> >>> Worse yet, that 5700 was a Flxible. I drove their predecessor - Twins in the 52-5300 series.
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> >>> Also had a lot of fun taking Marmon and ACF-Brill trackless for a spin around Chicago. And I even got paid for it!!!
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> >>>> From: fwschneider at comcast.net
> >>>> Subject: [PRCo] 2011 Calendars
> >>>> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:29:37 -0500
> >>>> CC: j_swindler at hotmail.com
> >>>> To: Pittsburgh-Railways at Dementia.Org
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> >>>> Here are a couple of calendars for 2011 that are floating around in cyberspace. The first is the Kenosha trolley group's PCC calendar featuring some of their cars and some of the San Francisco equipment:
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> >>>> http://kenoshastreetcarsociety.org/Documents/2011PCC%20Calendar.pdf
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> >>>> Next we have the 2011 Chicago Transit Authority Historic Calendar.
> >>>> http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/miscellaneous_documents/2011_CTA_Historical_Calendar.pdf
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> >>>> I suspect John Swindler will have the same feelings when he looks at the November page that I have when I run 1711 at Arden. How can that possibly be old enough to be historic or a museum piece? I have those issues with 1711 because I can remember my dad handing the supplement to the Pittsburgh Press across the dinner table to me in 1948 that announced the arrival of the 1700s. And John worked his way through college driving those propane buses in Chicago. John, are you on Derrick's address list? If not, you should be......
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