[PRCo] UMW blamed for diesels

[D Brashear]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Trouble with all this, Dwight, is that we are in our mid 70s trying to
> remember our youth and the people who knew it well are pushing up daisies.
>   Wouldn't you like to go back and ask Jim Symes?    I know I would like to
> be able to talk to people like Charlie Shauck (PRC Supt. of Power and
> Inclines) again … I think if he were living he would be about 105 now.
>
> When I wrote the PCC books, I had access to a lot of records.  I was told
> Sy Kashin, who did the other book, interviewed some of the older
> participants of the ERPCC but didn't have the paper records I had.   He
> probably wished he had the paper so he knew what to ask.  I knew what to
> ask but the people I wanted to ask were dead.
>

I had the sole surviving employee of the Allegheny and South Side Railroad;
the P&LE Society published the story and I sent him a copy. He died a few
months later. Now, I found more information, and, well, too late.

Life's hard.



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