[PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments....

[Bob Rathke]

Dwight, 



Lou may n ot have been the owner of the privately owned  trolley, but at the 1966 meeting he  argued for keeping it inside. 



I never saw the PRR car in the barn - it was always on the track between the barn lead and the railroad branch line. 



Bob 



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From: "Dwight Long" <dwightlong at verizon.net> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 1:21:47 AM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments.... 

Bob 

It was PRMA by then. Â  

I had left Pittsburgh and was living in Chicagoland at that time.  However, I don’t remember Louie owning a car.  Could be wrong, but it doesn’t sound right. 

Bob Brown owned a private railway car at the Museum—ex-PRR Colonial Crafts—but it was of course standard gauge and I don’t remember it ever being inside.  That car, BTW, is still in existence, but it now lives in the LA area.  I have ridden in it and it has a plaque on the wall honoring Brownie. 

Dwight 

From: Bob Rathke 
Sent: Sunday, 19 February, 2012 23:58 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments.... 

I remember being at a PR MA (or was it still PERC at that time?) meeting downtown in 1966, and there was a heated discussion about a privately owned trolley being kept at the Museum, and   the board wanted to move it outdoors.  I don't remember which car it was, but I think that it may have been owned by Lou Redman. 



I know this meeting  was in the summer of 1966 because the slide presentation that night included a quiz using  track diagrams of various trolley syst ems around the country, and attendees were asked to identify th em.  One of the diagrams showed just a few routes and  didn't get many correct guesses.  It turns out that the trolley system was, "Pittsburgh at the end of January, 1967". (Keep in mind that in August , 1966, everyone was  accustomed to seeing a  map of Pi ttsburgh  showing all the East End and South H ills routes.) 



Bob 



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From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at gmail.com> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:54:35 PM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments.... 

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:13 PM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> 
> I was under the impression that 3756 was an individual purchase rather than a museum purchase. Â 832 was a more traditional museum purchase. Â And there is an impression that it was three individuals that saved M1. Â I'd like to hear the 'real' story. Â 1138 is another car whose acquisition might have been dueto one person. 

Dick Bowker, yes? 

When I was younger, he lived on the other side of the borough, and I 
got a number of slide shows and to see a couple movies. 

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Derrick