<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 1/11/01 6:18:12 PM Eastern Standard Time, <BR>pghpcc@pacbell.net writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Who was still working there who had worked at Castle Shannon barn --
<BR>didn't it close in 1932. *Might* be possible, but doesn't sound
<BR>realistic -- think someone might have been giving you a long yarn!!
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<BR>No, they were telling the truth. I ASSumed that they were speaking of CS CH. <BR>Until now I really never knew the closing date of CS CH. They were apparently <BR>speaking of the combined service out of SHJ.
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<BR>Ray Kopeck was the one who told me the most about the interurban service. I <BR>know that he started with PRC in 1945. He told me the story (and this was <BR>confirmed by his wife) of how he got the job. They were walking down Seventh <BR>Street a few days after he got discharged from the US Army and wondering what <BR>career options he had to go for. There was now not much call for combat <BR>trained soldiers. He and his wife were passing 121 Seventh and he looked at a <BR>sign by the front door indicating operator positions open for PRC. He said a <BR>PRC employee (unknown who) was leaving the building and stopped beside him <BR>and said he should take advantage of the offer. He did and there he stayed <BR>for nearly forty years.
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<BR><<Was this in 1953 - when Charleroi and Washington were cut back to
<BR>Library and Drake? These were still considered interurbans and the
<BR>equipment was most definitely segregated even into early ({[pat]})
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<BR>No, this was when at least Ray started in 1945. I don't know if the two lists <BR>lasted past the 1953 cutbacks or not.
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