<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Does not surprise me in the least. In 1958, I organized a charter for the Lancaster Chapter of the NRHS. I asked our motorman, Roy Taylor, how many men were system qualified and the answer I got was an incredibly small number of old men. There were probably a fewer than five in each division that were qualified to run the whole system. Most of the guys knew the routes in the barn where they worked but they didn't know the whole system. Even on our trip, an inspector (a white hat) showed up out in Lincoln Place where route 65 joined route 56 because the company believed there had been some trackwork changes since Roy had last been there. If my memory is correct, those track changes occurred years before our trip.<br>
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And if you think Pittsburgh was bad, can you imagine how many people might have been system qualified in Philadelphia or Chicago or Brooklyn? I think Chicago was probably the largest system.<br>
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Yes, Ed, he probably got spoken to but I wonder how charitable the bosses were???? Pittsburgh is a city where you need a certain instinct to get around and we both know that. I remember standing out in front of East Liberty Presbyterian Church after Derrick Brashear's wedding. I was surrounded by the invited guests looking at portable GPS units trying to figure out how to get from East Liberty to the South Side. They were clueless. I think most of them came from Pittsburgh. I simply got in my car and drove there … no problem. </blockquote>
<div><br>It'd be harder now. Highland Avenue Bridge is out. At least once my autopilot brought me to Fifth and Highland on a Sunday morning before church, before I realized "not gonna work"<br><br>Of course, they did replace the Ellsworth Avenue Bridge, but it's only for non-motorized traffic! <br>
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