Re: PC: PCHS and the 70s

[NES3524 <NES3524@xxxxxxx>]

I'm (gulp) 42 (naw, I can't be).  Well, I must be 42 even if I don't believe I
it, because I was just 12 when PC began, and a teen when that newfangled
Amtrak suddenly showed up in the station three years later.  Unlike the older
folk of the time, I had no animosity toward the PC, as I had not formed a
special attachment to PRR or NYC.  To me, circa 1970, the PC just represented
something new (as was N scale too) and omnipresent on the local RR scene.

I must say though that I also remember that the morning news on the radio
throughout PC's life seemed to daily include reports of delays on 1, 2 or 3 of
PC's local commuter lines- Harlem, Hudson and New Haven lines.  I wonder if
there was ever one morning when all 3 were operating on schedule.  Still, I'm
sure they usually did the best they could with what they had.

In a message dated 98-04-09 17:52:16 EDT, bobr -AT- tridelta.com writes:

<<  I felt exactly the same kind of isolation in my 20's when I'd visit a 
 hobby shop for the first time only to find the atmosphere somehow cloistered 
 and self-referential. >>

I certainly felt the same way as a teenager in the early 1970s at certain
hobby shops and NMRA events.  It's many years later, but I can sure empathize
with the younger folks today.  I hope we don't come across that way to them
now, because if anything would chase someone out of the hobby, that would do
it.  

Still, I also met lots of nice people both in the hobby and on the RR.  My
late buddy Kirby and I, rather than being treated like annoying teenagers
(which perhaps we were!)  were treated very well by many PC (and LIRR) men in
places like Sunnyside Yard, NY, in those years.

By the way, how many PC'ers model in N scale?

Ned Schwartz