[PRCo] Re: 2011 Calendars

[richard allman]

I think 65 wass the age of retirement set by Bismarck in Prussia in the 
1870's or 1880's.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 5:56 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 2011 Calendars


> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It needs to be something reevaluated when we each of us begin our working 
> lives based on actuarial tables then.
>
> 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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Do we have gray hairs John?
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Also had a lot of fun taking Marmon and ACF-Brill trackless for a spin 
>>>> around Chicago.  And I even got paid for it!!!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://kenoshastreetcarsociety.org/Documents/2011PCC%20Calendar.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> Next we have the 2011 Chicago Transit Authority Historic Calendar.
>>>>> http://www.transitchicago.com/assets/1/miscellaneous_documents/2011_CTA_Historical_Calendar.pdf
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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