[PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal

Bob Rathke bobrathke at comcast.net
Sun Oct 27 11:36:46 EDT 2013


Gimbels had stores in NY, Phila., Pgh. and Milwaukee.  I read that when Gimbels was closing, its Pgh. store was profitable but because of the remote location to headquarters they decided to close all the stores. 

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From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net> 
To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" <pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 9:28:55 AM 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 

Don't let Adam Gimble hear you say that.  Oh yes, I forgot.............all 
you Lancaster people only shop at Barneys and Saks. 


On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote: 

> Ah yes, Gimbels … the cheap department store.   But like so many others 
> driven out of business by K-Mart, WalMart, Target and so forth, it no 
> longer exists. 
> 
> My first introduction to any form of electronic mail was a captive 
> in-house system that the state operated for its own departmental 
> operations. Today it's own system has been scrapped and it is using the 
> internet.   But it was a fantastic system that allowed us to get stuff out 
> of Harrisburg the same day they got it … of course transmission was 
> excruciatingly slow. 
> 
> The earliest memory I have of any such system, however rudimentary, was 
> the state Job Bank which would have been in the very early 1970s.   All job 
> orders, referral and placement transactions were scanned with a slow speed 
> rotary drum scanner about the same number of lines as an old television 
> screen and then sent over telephone lines to Harrisburg to be be processed 
> into the main frame computer. 
> 
> Hard to believe that, in the space of forty years, we have gone from that 
> to being able to send letters and photographs and drawings back and forth 
> to buddies anywhere in the world in real time.   We can all remember when a 
> letter to Europe took a week to be delivered and now, if we are both awake 
> and near our computers at the same time, I can pass a half dozen e-mails 
> back and forth to the same person in Vienna or Berlin or rural eastern 
> England …. as we watch the postal service go bankrupt. 
> 
> 
> On Oct 26, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Herb Brannon wrote: 
> 
> > John, 
> > There was a "kinda" Internet back in the early/mid 1980s. It was nothing 
> > like we're using today, however. 
> > 
> > I had just bought a brand new Commodore 64 complete system at Gimbles in 
> > downtown Pittsburgh. Interesting that both Gimbles and the Commodore 64 
> > have gone to the museum of memories. My C64 was very "cutting edge" for 
> > 1983/84 inasmuch as I had the keyboard, monitor ( nothing more than a 
> > television set with only green and black color), dataset (for programs 
> and 
> > storage on cassette tape), two (mind you, two !) floppy disk drives (so I 
> > didn't have to switch between program and data-storage disks on only one 
> > disk drive), and a dot-matrix printer with these little DIP switches in 
> the 
> > back which could be set to produce ten different print styles, and a 
> little 
> > rectangle shaped box which plugged into the back of the keyboard and was 
> > called a "modem". For what I paid for all that stuff I could have used 
> that 
> > same dollar amount today and purchased three or four complete computer 
> > set-ups. 
> > 
> > Anyway, I wanted to use this investment to its fullest so I signed up for 
> > this service which was advertised as "connecting computers and their 
> users" 
> > for the purpose of transmitting "mail-like electronic messages" and 
> > providing "interest groups" on varying subject matter. It was, for all 
> > purposes, the beginning of the Internet. The "Mail-like electronic 
> message" 
> > service was called MCI Mail. You could send messages to other users who 
> > were on this system and you could also sent messages to people not on the 
> > service via this MCI Mail in selected US cities. For people not hooked 
> into 
> > the "network" via computer, the messages went to a MCI facility (located 
> in 
> > several major cities, Pittsburgh included) and were then delivered by a 
> > messenger to any address in downtown Pittsburgh or the downtown area of 
> the 
> > other cities in the network. The drawbacks were many, including the 
> > messenger service, the fact that only the downtown areas of several major 
> > cities could be accessed via this service, and the cost. This service 
> last 
> > only a few months as more and more people and businesses began using 
> > computers and became connected. 
> > 
> > There were no photographs on this system, only plain text. However, it 
> was 
> > the start of what we have today and I'm happy that I was a part of it. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:00 PM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com 
> >wrote: 
> > 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> In 1968/9 Point Park College had a relatively new IBM System 360 
> computer. 
> >> It was a stand alone unit about 5-6 feet high.  An instructor said that 
> >> the CPU took up less than a foot of this height - the rest was empty 
> space. 
> >> This was to fool purchasing agents who expected computers to be big and 
> >> bulky.  Miniaturization was already occurring. 
> >> 
> >> Doubt if you were thinking of using the internet in early 1980s, Fred. 
> >> Mid-1990s, perhaps, but not 1980s. 
> >> 
> >> A problem in the 1980s was the proliferation of computer manufacturers 
> and 
> >> non-compatible software.  Also speed even when there was a program that 
> >> could convert from one language to another.  We're talking 8086 and 286 
> >> chips.  Today it seems that instantaneous just doesn't seem fast 
> enough.  I 
> >> remember a LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet.  Enter a bunch of data, tell it to 
> >> compute, then go for a cup of coffee.  It was used to produce the 
> >> Pennsylvania Mass Transit Statistical Report. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 02:04:10 +0000 
> >>> From: bobrathke at comcast.net 
> >>> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org 
> >>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>> 
> >>> Most of us from the 1970's have these computer stories, Fred.  I used 
> my 
> >> first word processor in 1979 - a Digital computer the size of a small 
> >> refrigerator with a 9" monochrome screen, plus a noisy daisy-wheel 
> impact 
> >> printer.  Hardly desktop, and no hard drive - the word processing 
> program 
> >> ran from an 8" floppy, and documents were stored on another 8" floppy. 
> >> Those floppies had the massive capacity of 840KB each. That Digital 
> >> computer cost $12,000, but it wasn't linked to anything, so in 1980 the 
> >> company bought a modem to connect to another computer. That modem cost 
> $750. 
> >>> 
> >>> Bob. 
> >>> 
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>> 
> >>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net> 
> >>> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" < 
> >> pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> >>> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 7:48:16 PM 
> >>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>> 
> >>> Bob, 
> >>> 
> >>> I can recall when the state had a mammoth computer room in the L&I 
> >> Building in Harrisburg to handle all Employment Service data reporting 
> and 
> >> all the Unemployment Claims …. huge place on a raised floor to 
> accommodate 
> >> both the cabling and the air-conditing ducts to keep the main frame 
> >> computers cool. 
> >>> 
> >>> Today I know what is sitting on my desk … each of them …. has far more 
> >> power than what put the man on the moon back in the 1960s.   Probably 
> the 
> >> computers in most of our cars have more ooomph than that computer that 
> put 
> >> Armstrong on the moon. 
> >>> 
> >>> In the early 1980s, I was the head of an occupational information 
> >> program in Pennsylvania to provide data to schools and anyone else who 
> >> might need it … mostly for counseling kids.   The federal government 
> wanted 
> >> it all done on main frame computers.   In Pennsylvania, we were thinking 
> >> about doing it on desk top computers and passing out the information on 
> >> floppy disks or linking them by this new internet to desk tops in 
> >> Harrisburg.   Washington told me that if we tried to do it that way, we 
> >> would not be given any grant money.   Obviously someone who was making 
> main 
> >> frame computers had lobbied heavily to have things done his way. 
>  Funny 
> >> thing about that … two years later, my successor told me that I had been 
> >> right and we're doing it your way. 
> >>> 
> >>> It's not your grandmother's Buick…. 
> >>> 
> >>> Fred 
> >>> 
> >>> On Oct 25, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Bob Rathke wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>>> In 1965 I wrote and produced a slide presentation for training U.S. 
> >> Steel's customer service people in their offices around the U.S.  I made 
> >> several visits to the Muriel St. facility to get background information 
> on 
> >> U.S. Steel's computer capabilities.  I remember being impressed with the 
> >> building's climate controlled environment and the raised floors to 
> >> accomodate under-floor computer cables. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Today, an i-pad is probably more powerful that the computer system in 
> >> that building in 1965. 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Bob 
> >>>> 
> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>> 
> >>>> From: "Derrick Brashear" <shadow at dementix.org> 
> >>>> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" < 
> >> pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> >>>> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 5:05:40 PM 
> >>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>>> 
> >>>> it's a computer center 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net> 
> >> wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> In the 1970's, USS's Muriel St. facility was the Direct Mail Center - 
> >>>>> computer operations, literature storage and fulfillment.  If it's 
> >> still 
> >>>>> there, I'm not sure about its current function. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net> 
> >>>>> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" < 
> >>>>> pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> >>>>> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 10:16:14 PM 
> >>>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> It seems that back in the "big steel" days the main producers of 
> >> smoke and 
> >>>>> fire were the USS Homestead Works and just about everything J & L had 
> >>>>> operating. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> USS also has some type of operation on Muriel Street in Southside. 
> >> I'm not 
> >>>>> sure what they do there, however. USS also has a research center in 
> >>>>> Homestead still operating. Even with all these operating facilities, 
> >> the 
> >>>>> number of people employed by USS comes nowhere near what those 
> >> facilities 
> >>>>> used to employ. 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:53 PM, Dwight Long < 
> dwightlong at verizon.net 
> >>>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Herb 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> But Irvin works is not a primary producer but rather a rolling mill 
> >> (as 
> >>>>>> you said) and so would not generate the "fire and brimstone" that 
> >>>>>> characterized a primary steel producer. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> I went by Clairton on a train in July and did not notice any smoke 
> at 
> >>>>> all, 
> >>>>>> just some condensed water vapor.  I think the coking processes are 
> so 
> >>>>>> contained these days that very little emissions emanate from it. 
> >> Besides 
> >>>>>> environmental concerns, the steelmakers have learned that the 
> >> effluents 
> >>>>>> from the coke making process are valuable by products that need to 
> be 
> >>>>>> trapped and sold.  The days of the beehive coke ovens that spewed 
> >> all the 
> >>>>>> byproducts into the atmosphere are long gone. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> Dwight 
> >>>>>>  ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>>>  From: Herb Brannon 
> >>>>>>  To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
> >>>>>>  Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 10:41 PM 
> >>>>>>  Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>  Bob R, 
> >>>>>>  It still had that "orange glow" when I first moved here in 1972. 
> >> Plus, 
> >>>>>> when 
> >>>>>>  atmospheric conditions were right, it smelled like fire & 
> >> brimstone, 
> >>>>>>  everywhere. Even today, on  humid days, I still smell the "fire & 
> >>>>>>  brimstone" coming from the Irvin Works just over the hill (on Camp 
> >>>>> Hollow 
> >>>>>>  Rd) to the south-east of my place. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>  Contrary to popular opinion steel is not dead in Pittsburgh. The 
> >>>>> Clairton 
> >>>>>>  Works still produces coke as it always did, the Edgar Thompson 
> >> Works 
> >>>>>> makes 
> >>>>>>  primary steel, the Irvin Works produces rolled steel and the 
> >> relatively 
> >>>>>> new 
> >>>>>>  Mckeesport Tubular Works (old National Works, now reopened) makes 
> >>>>> tubular 
> >>>>>>  products for the Marcellus Shale drilling industry. So the sulphur 
> >> and 
> >>>>>> fire 
> >>>>>>  & brimstone can still be smelled on humid days and the orange glow 
> >> is 
> >>>>>> still 
> >>>>>>  available in Braddock and Clairton. 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>  On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke at comcast.net 
> >>> 
> >>>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Driving south from Zelienople at night in the 1950's you didn't 
> >> need 
> >>>>> a 
> >>>>>>> compass to locate Pittsburgh - the sky there always had an orange 
> >>>>> glow. 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com> 
> >>>>>>> To: "Western PA Trolley discussion" < 
> >>>>>>> pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> >>>>>>> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2013 10:16:09 AM 
> >>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> Was chatting with some PTM visitors yesterday, and among the 
> >>>>> "Pittsburg 
> >>>>>>> smells" mentioned was J&L sulfur smell upon exiting Squirrel Hill 
> >>>>>> Tunnels 
> >>>>>>> and heading downgrade to Brady St. exit.   They were old enough 
> >> to 
> >>>>>> remember 
> >>>>>>> air pollution from late 1940s - (before my time). 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> From: dwightlong at verizon.net 
> >>>>>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org 
> >>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 11:04:35 -0400 
> >>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves--and Coal 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Herb 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> In Beaver burning next to the curb was OK on concrete streets 
> >> (we 
> >>>>>> lived 
> >>>>>>> on one) or brick ones (still several left in the 50s) but not on 
> >>>>>> asphalt 
> >>>>>>> nor tarred ones! 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Tar?  When I was in first or second grade I came home from 
> >> school 
> >>>>> for 
> >>>>>>> lunch.  On the way back to school the alley that I used as a 
> >> shortcut 
> >>>>>> was 
> >>>>>>> being freshly tarred.  I followed the tar dispensing truck, 
> >>>>> fascinated. 
> >>>>>>> When I got to school I was sent home immediately.  I looked 
> >> like the 
> >>>>>>> proverbial tarbaby.  Lots of turpentine and stiff scrubbing 
> >> later, 
> >>>>> and 
> >>>>>> a 
> >>>>>>> new suit of clothes, I returned and was admitted. 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> And we still had plenty of coal furnaces in our town back then, 
> >>>>>> although 
> >>>>>>> our house used gas.  I well recall the smell of the coal burning 
> >> on 
> >>>>>> cold 
> >>>>>>> winter days whilst delivering the Pittsburgh Press to my paper 
> >> route 
> >>>>>>> customers.  The last time I encountered that smell was just a few 
> >>>>>> years ago 
> >>>>>>> in a suburb of Budapest while fotting the trams there.  Brought 
> >> back 
> >>>>>> many 
> >>>>>>> memories! 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> Dwight 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> From: Herb Brannon 
> >>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, 21 October, 2013 10:48 
> >>>>>>>> To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
> >>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Burning Leaves 
> >>>>>>>> When I was a child, in Akron,  the common practice was to burn 
> >> the 
> >>>>>> leaves 
> >>>>>>>> in the street but along the curb stones. Sometimes the piles of 
> >>>>>> leaves 
> >>>>>>> were 
> >>>>>>>> so large that the fires would become too large and would 
> >> spread to 
> >>>>>> the 
> >>>>>>>> treelawn. Then the fire department would be called to put out 
> >> the 
> >>>>>> fires. 
> >>>>>>> It 
> >>>>>>>> made for an exciting day or evening. Ranking right up there 
> >> with 
> >>>>> the 
> >>>>>>> smell 
> >>>>>>>> of burning leaves are also the smell of coal smoke and the 
> >> smell of 
> >>>>>> fresh 
> >>>>>>>> tar.............three of the "little joys of life" now gone by 
> >> the 
> >>>>>>> wayside. 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Dwight Long < 
> >>>>>> dwightlong at verizon.net 
> >>>>>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Herb 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> I can remember back in the 50s coming back to Beaver from 
> >> auto 
> >>>>>> trips to 
> >>>>>>>>> the East that involved the Pa Turnpike—we would use the 
> >>>>> Warrendale 
> >>>>>>> exit and 
> >>>>>>>>> the back roads to Beaver.  Coming down into the (Beaver) 
> >> valley 
> >>>>>> off the 
> >>>>>>>>> hill the whole floor of the valley would be engulfed in leaf 
> >>>>> smoke. 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Unhealthy, they say, but it sure did convey the impression 
> >> that 
> >>>>>> Autumn 
> >>>>>>> was 
> >>>>>>>>> upon us! 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> Dwight 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> From: Herb Brannon 
> >>>>>>>>> Sent: Sunday, 20 October, 2013 10:36 
> >>>>>>>>> To: Western PA Trolley discussion 
> >>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] Phil asked about music 
> >>>>>>>>> You mentioned something I really miss.............the smell 
> >> of 
> >>>>>> burning 
> >>>>>>>>> leaves in October. 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:37 AM, DF Cramer < 
> >>>>>> alto_trombone at hotmail.com 
> >>>>>>>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>> Well, what have I been up to? The beginning of the month I 
> >>>>>> performed 
> >>>>>>>>>> Copland, Brahms, & Dvorak with the Butler County 
> >> Symphony,our 
> >>>>> (my 
> >>>>>>> wife 
> >>>>>>>>>> plays cello) 28th season with the ensemble. I am back at 
> >> IUP 
> >>>>> and 
> >>>>>>>>> delivered 
> >>>>>>>>>> two arrangements of French Noels from the Baroque period to 
> >>>>>> begin the 
> >>>>>>>>>> semester and last week conducted a first reading of my "The 
> >>>>>> Eternal 
> >>>>>>>>> Flame", 
> >>>>>>>>>> a commemorative piece for double trombone choir and 
> >> narrator I 
> >>>>>> wrote 
> >>>>>>> to 
> >>>>>>>>>> mark the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. 
> >> All of 
> >>>>>> that 
> >>>>>>> will 
> >>>>>>>>> be 
> >>>>>>>>>> performed on November 19 at the university. Next week I 
> >> perform 
> >>>>>> with 
> >>>>>>> IUP 
> >>>>>>>>>> brass & organ faculty at Zion Lutheran in Indiana for 
> >>>>> Reformation 
> >>>>>>> Sunday 
> >>>>>>>>>> and the following week we are doing Charlie Chaplin's "City 
> >>>>>> Lights" 
> >>>>>>> in 
> >>>>>>>>>> Butler. Chaplin created the musical score for this silent 
> >> film 
> >>>>>> and we 
> >>>>>>>>> will 
> >>>>>>>>>> be showing the film as we perform. (Side note: if you want 
> >>>>>> tickets 
> >>>>>>> let me 
> >>>>>>>>>> know as soon as possible--I usually get 4 free ones) 
> >>>>>>>>>> Other than that, I spent quality time with Ed at the 
> >> Alle-Kiski 
> >>>>>>>>> Historical 
> >>>>>>>>>> Society, led a new operator training class at PTM, printed 
> >> and 
> >>>>>>> stuffed 
> >>>>>>>>>> ballots for PTM, and am going to the opera today to see 
> >> Aida 
> >>>>>>> (football 
> >>>>>>>>> fan 
> >>>>>>>>>> alert--Franco Harris is leading the Grand March in the 
> >> opera 
> >>>>>> today) 
> >>>>>>>>>> I spend lots of time practicing and cleaning up leaves.  I 
> >>>>> mulch 
> >>>>>>> some and 
> >>>>>>>>>> burn others---yes we are still permitted to burn here. 
> >>>>>>>>>> If you missed it--I also performed at the PTM 50th 
> >> Anniversary 
> >>>>>>> luncheon. 
> >>>>>>>>>> See the most recent issue of PTM Trolley Fare, Fred 
> >> Schneider 
> >>>>>> took 
> >>>>>>> some 
> >>>>>>>>>> great images. 
> >>>>>>>>>> Dennis F. Cramer 
> >>>>>>>>>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/ 
> >>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 05:49:49 -0700 
> >>>>>>>>>>> From: pcc_sr at yahoo.com 
> >>>>>>>>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] still having issues 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Stereo-vision isn't it Mr.Cramer!  Soapbox opportunity; 
> >> make 
> >>>>>> the 
> >>>>>>> most 
> >>>>>>>>> of 
> >>>>>>>>>> it! 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> You have not recently mentioned anything about your 
> >> concert 
> >>>>> or 
> >>>>>>> music 
> >>>>>>>>>> engagements. 
> >>>>>>>>>>> I find them fascinating.  Music is not at all unlike 
> >> laughter 
> >>>>>> is 
> >>>>>>> it; 
> >>>>>>>>>> both speak a universal language. 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Yes; BB are the last posts I have seen.  There was not 
> >> much 
> >>>>> of 
> >>>>>>> anything 
> >>>>>>>>>> before your BB posts for several weeks.  You mentioned a 
> >> book 
> >>>>> in 
> >>>>>>> relation 
> >>>>>>>>>> to this; please tell more. 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Phil 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> -------------------------------------------- 
> >>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 10/19/13, DF Cramer <alto_trombone at hotmail.com> 
> >>>>> wrote: 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Subject: [PRCo] still having issues 
> >>>>>>>>>>> To: "pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org" < 
> >>>>>>>>>> pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013, 3:52 AM 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> it seemed very interesting that after 
> >>>>>>>>>>> I posted on the list, several emails came through. I 
> >> assume 
> >>>>>> people 
> >>>>>>>>> were 
> >>>>>>>>>> responding with reply all. I have received no  posts from 
> >> the 
> >>>>>> list 
> >>>>>>> other 
> >>>>>>>>>> than those dealing with Billy Baxter. 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> Dennis F. Cramer 
> >>>>>>>>>>> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1/ 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>>>>>> 
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> >>>>>>>>> *In Pittsburgh...* 
> >>>>>>>>> *......the Greatest City In The U.S.* 
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> >>>>>>>> *In Pittsburgh...* 
> >>>>>>>> *......the Greatest City In The U.S.* 
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