[PRCo] PRCo Freedom Train

[Fred Schneider]

Thanks for the memories, Ray.   That would have been a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in September 1948.   I have vague memories of standing in that line.  It would have been the opening weeks of 3rd grade at Universal elementary school in Penn Township but I have no memories of escaping from classes.   Funny that I have no memories of 1st, 2nd or 3rd grades but all sorts of memories beginning in 4th grade after we moved.  I cannot even remember the teachers' names in Pittsburgh, but I can remember all of them starting in 4th grade.

I remember cases of documents on the train but I have no really important impressions about what those documents were.   My mother probably was much more stimulated by them.   But I did understand, even then, that Alco and GE built the diesel.    Shows what I cared about.   Takes some of us a while to wake up, eh?   

Do you think it might have something to do with the fact that the Reading railroad ran steam engines a block from my school in Lititz in the 4th grade?   

And Universal, all I can remember was the freaking cement dust from the factory down at the bottom of the hill.   





On Jun 30, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Lattner, Raymond wrote:

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