[PRCo] Re: McKeesport

[Fred Schneider]

I was just about to put John's legendary quote on line but you beat me to it!   

Ed said something else to me over the weekend.   Let's see if I can quote it precisely.   "The museum will eat you alive it you allow it."     Some people are there every time I go there ... Dave Hamley, Bernie Orient, Bruce Wells.   I suspect that, in addition to the time they put in at the museum, they probably log as many hours at home or more on museum projects.    We have people put in around a thousand hours a year or half a full-time job.    It's obscene when it eats people like that.   

Some of the members would like other lives.   There are around 600 members and those who are active and working are a small percentage of that.   As I recall, the number of volunteer hours is around 23,000 a year, or around 11 full-time bodies.  That sounds like a lot but you could probably lose another 10,000 hours a year and not even know where it went.  I'm sure you could put two full-time bodies in the library and still not catch up.   

You could lose another two to four thousand hours a year in fund raising.  

If you had a couple of full time volunteers for a year or two, you might be able to rewire 1138 and get it running again and also get that Philly 8000 on the road.   And PST 14 needs a replacement brake blending valve.   Point is you could use two full time guys volunteering in the shop alone and you still wouldn't catch up.    The horse car needs platform knees to you don't need props to hold the platforms up.    That alone would be 4,160 hours.   

Yes, nothing is impossible for those who do not have to do it.   


On May 15, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> That would be wonderful idea if someone would provide money and time in
> quantity.  As John Swindler likes to say, nothing is impossible to the
> person who doesn't have to do the work.  And I don't have either the people
> or the time to make the selection of what gets digitized, let alone doing
> it.  It would be a huge waste of time and talent to scan 100% of the
> holdings, let me guarantee you!
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> Ed 
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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 Phillip
> Clark Campbell
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 11:50 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: McKeesport
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> Yes, Ray, that is an excellent idea.  The museum depends upon donations,
> sales, grants not having regular income like business.  Thus photos can be a
> source of identification and income which poses problems in posting.  There
> is an answer;  just don't know how that can be approached.
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> Phil
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> From: Ray <rayprco53 at verizon.net>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Sun, May 15, 2011 10:58:55 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: McKeesport
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> I agree the special effects were way overboard.
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> You might try clpgh.org to see if these photos are online at the Carnegie
> library. I wish PTM could do some thing with the University of Pittsburgh
> and their Historic Pittsburgh web site and put their collection on line.
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> Ray
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> May 15, 2011 09:14:33 AM, pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org wrote:
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> Yes, interesting content but the most hellish video I have ever watched.  A
> different special effect every photo is massive overkill isn't it.  It is
> highly annoying.  Does the Carnegie library have online photos?
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> Phil
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> From: Ray
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Sat, May 14, 2011 7:21:06 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] McKeesport
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> Pretty interesting. Some cool PRCo shots in Part 3. 
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw4HgtpGMgI&feature=related
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> Ray
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