Re: PC: those care free 70's and the future

["Roger P. Hensley" <rhensley@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 10:27:57 -0400
>To: penn-central -AT- smellycat.com
>From: Christian Axsiom <rcaxsiom -AT- maxwell.syr.edu>
>Subject: Re: PC: those care free 70's and the future
>
>To the undergrads I teach, I think 26 (my age) is old.  But I don't think
>35 is old at all.  Kelly asks an interesting question.  How old are all
of us?

>
>Christian Axsiom

        I am amazed at the ages that I am seeing here. Under 35? Great!! 
        I am 58 and I date back to the NYC and PRR which were very
        busy in my area of Indiana. Suddenly, there was PC abandoning
        track as fast as they could get rid of it. My memories of the
        PC are somewhat less than fond.  :-(
        
        It is interesting that the CID NMRA meet that I attended two
        weeks ago had a slide clinic on the PC. I really enjoyed it.
        I sat there looking at poor trackwork, painted out reporting 
        marks and roadnames and grungy locomotives.  I was  seeing 
        equipment that had been an everyday sight, and many with a 
        historic background and story. They're all gone now captured 
        in a fleeting moment by the click of a camera shutter. 

        There was a time that I stopped taking pictures of any kind. 
        I only wish...        

Roger 

Roger Hensley - 00rphensley -AT- bsuvc.bsu.edu - rhensley@ecicnet.org
Information Systems Specialist - Ball State University  - Muncie, IN
                             
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