[PRCo] Re: 2011 Calendars

[Fred Schneider]

And it should be over 70 if we were to be anywhere near what was being practiced in 1938.....

I wonder how much of the lower age in the 1930s was caused by people jumping off buildings?   Probably fewer than the gun shot / cocaine / drug war deaths today.   The big difference in the 1930s was probably a much higher incidence of deaths per high vehicle mile than today.


On Jan 5, 2011, at 8:26 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> FYI: SS has upped it to 66 for 100% benefits for those born between 1943 and
> 1954.  The 100% option then increases the age to collect that option by two
> months (for each year) for birth years between 1955 and 1959. For those born
> in 1960 and later the age to collect 100% SS retirement benefits is 67. **
> **Source: Social Security Administration, Table of Social Security Benefits
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> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:56, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
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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.
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>> 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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> Herb Brannon
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