[PRCo] change to list member years past

[Fred Schneider]

This has to be last 1970s or early 1980s … before the used Omega D2 enlarger was moved into the darkroom and the Dejur 4x5 was sidelined to be used only when needed for distortion control.   Fred's hair was still brown and plentiful … before my wife said, "I wonder what it would look shorter."   And afterward she said, "I didn't mean that short" and I said "Get used to it … it's low maintenance."  

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I had no idea you were on that trip John.   I don't know who the guy on the left is.   The one on the right is Jeff Marinoff.   He was celebrating or lamenting the loss of the 80 cars on the Red Arrow and their replacement by the Kawasakis.   The motorman is the guy on the left holding the cake.  Yes, it was Fred blocking the picture because I was taking a picture of those two holding the cake.  It was in October 1982 in Media, Pa., yes … 31 years ago.

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Yes, John, Fred is the guy next to the tripod.   I took this with three different cameras … hand-held 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 with a Mamiya twin lens reflex on black and white roll film,  Kodachrome in a Nikon, and 4x5 in an old Speed Graphic mounted on a tripod and focused on the ground glass to make sure it was perfectly sharp.   There is a 16x20 print hanging on the den wall from that negative.   That Graphic had an extremely wide angle lens.   When was it?   Don't remember the date and I didn't record it on the slides but they have processing dates of November 1980.

Car 8534 is up at the "museum" in Scranton now.    Last time I saw 2054, I was not impressed with its condition.   Remember that the HB lifeguard had been removed from it because it was placed under the state motor vehicle inspection code and that required that safety appliances had to work …… so SEPTA's solution was to remove it and then it doesn't have to work.   

But who are all those other people.   I have no recollection that they were all there.   I just remember getting a phone call from Russ Jackson telling me it was going to happen so I took the day off and went to Philadelphia.   Apparently you did the same, John.


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