[PRCo] Problems of Getting Books Written

[Dwight Long]

Bob

And I have done my damndest to try to convince Dick Hasselman to write a book about his career—even offered to be the ghost writer.  Absolutely no success.  What a shame.

I have substantially edited and in parts rewritten and added to a history of Wheeling Traction Co. for Seashore, but they lack the will (or money) to publish it.  Again, a shame.

Perhaps Ed could negotiate a release of the incomplete project to PTM!?

Dwight

From: Bob Rathke 
Sent: Friday, 19 July, 2013 12:46
To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRC 1400 Series PCC in Museum
About six years ago a friend wrote a railroad book.  Since then he's been asked to write a follow-up book but he has absolutely no interest in re-open ing the subject. 

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From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:41:19 AM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRC 1400 Series PCC in Museum 


In my mind, John, I also questioned whether or not Seashore would have bothered to regauge Pittsburgh trucks or simply get a pair of standard gauge B2 trucks from Boston.   The fans would never know.   But I admit to not wasting my time to see what happened to all the wartime era Boston PCCs. 

It's one thing to write the book on the subject.   Another thing to keep one's head so involved in that topic that you miss everything else going on in the world since 1980.   The answer is, once those books were put to bed, I went on to other interests. 



On Jul 18, 2013, at 9:51 PM, John Swindler wrote: 

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> 
> huh, Fred??? 
> 
> Alan Pegler never had a Royal Scot.  Those were London-Midland-Scottish 4-6-0 types used on the West Coast main line.  The first one - #6100 Royal Scot  has been preserved.   
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> The "Flying Scotsman" is an  A-3 class London and Northeastern 'pacific' type loco used on the East Coast main line. 
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> The only similarity is that both made trips to US, but neither you nor I ever saw the Royal Scot in this country - it's US visit was during 1930s. 
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> As for PRC 1440, finding this link falls into the category of just dumb luck.  Any reason Seashore would re-gauge the PRC trucks rather than use an extra set of Boston PCC trucks???? 
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> http://www.trolleymuseum.org/collection/browse.php?id=01440SPA 
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>> From: fwschneider at comcast.net 
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 19:49:27 -0400 
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org 
>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] PRC 1400 Series PCC in Museum 
>> 
>> Here is a link to 1440 on Seashore's web site. 
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>> http://www.trolleymuseum.org/collection/browse.php?id=01440SPA 
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>> I have no idea what shape it is in today.  Remember when Alan Pegler's Royal Scot  (4472) was running in the U. S. A?    I think it is called the Flying Scotsman today and there is a joke on line about renaming it after the prime minister by simply removing the F from the name.   
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>> Well, I think that might have been about 1969.   I went up on the Night Clunker from Philly to Providence and met Bill Middleton (the Navy had him in Newport, RI then) and we spent the weekend chasing a British steam engine and riding trolleys at Seashore.   That was the only time I saw 1440 and it looked pretty good them.    I have been up that way one or two times since but I didn't see it out. 
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>> On Jul 18, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote: 
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>>> It was operable at that time.  I presume it still is...can't find a photo of it -- or most other cars -- on their website. 
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