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

[Dwight Long]

Bob

That is always where I saw it as well, but my visits to the Museum in those 
years were sporadic, so I could not say authoritatively.

Dwight

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From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 8:54 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Making sense of the PRC assignments....


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> Lou may n ot have been the owner of the privately owned  trolley, but at 
> the 1966 meeting he  argued for keeping it inside.
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> I never saw the PRR car in the barn - it was always on the track between 
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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....
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> Bob
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> It was PRMA by then. Â
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> I had left Pittsburgh and was living in Chicagoland at that time. Â 
> However, I donâ?Tt remember Louie owning a car. Â Could be wrong, but it 
> doesnâ?Tt sound right.
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> Bob Brown owned a private railway car at the Museumâ?"ex-PRR Colonial 
> Craftsâ?"but it was of course standard gauge and I donâ?Tt remember it 
> ever being inside. Â That car, BTW, is still in existence, but it now 
> lives in the LA area. Â I have ridden in it and it has a plaque on the 
> wall honoring Brownie.
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> Dwight
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> 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....
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> 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 Ã, Â the board wanted to move 
> it outdoors.Ã, Â I don't remember which carÃ, it was, but I think that it 
> may have been owned by Lou Redman.
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> I knowÃ, this meeting Ã, was in the summer of 1966 because the slide 
> presentation that night included a quiz using Ã, track diagrams of various 
> trolley syst ems around the country, and attendees were asked to identify 
> th em.Ã, Â One of the diagrams showed just a fewÃ, routes and Ã, didn't 
> get many correct guesses.Ã, Â It turns out that the trolley system was, 
> "Pittsburgh at the end of January, 1967". (Keep in mind that in August , 
> 1966,Ã, everyone was Ã, accustomed to seeing a Ã, map of Pi ttsburgh Ã, 
> showing all the East End and South H ills routes.)
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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....
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> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:13 PM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> 
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>> I was under the impression that 3756 was an individual purchase rather 
>> than a museum purchase. Ã, 832 was a more traditional museum purchase. Ã, 
>> And there is an impression that it was three individuals that saved M1. 
>> Ã, I'd like to hear the 'real' story. Ã, 1138 is another car whose 
>> acquisition might have been dueto one person.
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> Dick Bowker, yes?
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> 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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