[PRCo] Re: Bethlehem, PA Trolley Photos

[Fred Schneider]

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On Jun 26, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> This may as well be included, too. Taken around 1925 at Broad & New Sts,
> Bethlehem by an unknown photographer.
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> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 19:35, Richard Allman <allmanr at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> the other great Charlie Houser story relates to the famous Lehigh Valley
>> NRHS fan trip in April 1951, w/ 3 car train of 700 cars. northbound at some
>> speed coming into Center Square, crossing Skippack Pike, no way was Charlie
>> able to stop that thing very fast, so he just leaned on the horn and sailed
>> across the road-safely-phewww!!!!
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 7:15 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Bethlehem, PA Trolley Photos
>> 
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>>> Walter Zackon, who lived in southern New Jersey, used to tell a great
>>> story that indirectly involved Charlie Houser.
>>> 
>>> It was the last day of Easton Limited service and Charlie was the
>>> motorman.   They were stopped for the traffic light at Broad and New in
>>> Bethlehem and Charlie left him off the car and agreed to pick him up
>>> farther down the block.   Charlie said he was running down the block, and
>>> looking back over his shoulder, and running, and looking over his and
>>> running and looking back.
>>> 
>>> Months later he was looking at movies at a Lehigh Valley Chapter NRHS
>>> meeting and discovered another fan had been there.   Walter said he saw
>>> himself on the screen running down Broad Street in Bethlehem, looking
>> over
>>> his shoulder with the Keystone Cops chasing him.   I think it might have
>>> been Howard Sell who had neglected to see with the movie camera capturing
>>> him.
>>> 
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>>> On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Richard Allman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ok, Herb: first one-not sure-it's an odd angle;
>>>> second one @ Bethlehem Steel plant, 2 work cars awaiting entry to the
>>>> scrap
>>>> track in June, 1953
>>>> third shot w/ 1000 series car also at the Bethlehem Steel on the
>>>> specially
>>>> installed scrap track on Daly Avenue
>>>> info re: others will require some research!
>>>> Charlie Houser was an LVT motorman. He died in 1984. He was a very nice
>>>> person, as were his wife and children.
>>>> RICH
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net>
>>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 1:53 PM
>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Bethlehem, PA Trolley Photos
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> I found these at the Bethlehem PA public library. Mr. C.W. Hauser is
>>>>> credited as the photographer. I had never seen any of these photos.
>>>>> Maybe
>>>>> some on The List will be interested.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Herb Brannon
>>>>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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> Herb Brannon
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