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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <BR>Sounds like you visited Biltmore. <BR> <BR>Tennessee is only an eight hour drive from Lancaster. That's in 2014, not 1954. <br> <BR>It was around two hours Gatlinburg to Ashville a month ago. Suspect your timing was better than ours - the flowers at Biltmore were just starting to bloom.<BR> <BR>Amazing the revolution brought about by interstate highways. We make spur of the moment trips today that would have been a major project during our parents/grandparents generation. <BR> <BR> <BR><div>> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:23:00 -0400<br>> From: shadow@dementix.org<br>> To: pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] UMW blamed for diesels<br>> <br>> > Just one example to hammer it home. In 1955 we left the grandparents in<br>> > Marietta, Ohio about 9 a.m. one day and pulled into a model in Wytheville,<br>> > Virginia around 7 p.m. Wytheville is where US route 11 crossed US route<br>> > 19. Took the whole freaking day and by then they had a modern convenience<br>> > called the West Virginia Turnpike. Now the comparison. The end of<br>> > April, this year, I left Ed Lybarger's home in Washington County, Pa in the<br>> > morning, passed through Wytheville after lunch and holed up at Bruce<br>> > Bente's home in Hendersonville, NC for dinner. That's close to 300 miles<br>> > more than the long day in 1955 and I started the more recent trip on ice<br>> > and snow! Now the admission … we did pause on the 1955 trip to photograph<br>> > the Powhattan Arrow coming through Bluefield as well as the Virginian's day<br>> > local. (Dad was easy to convince.)<br>> ><br>> <br>> Gwen and I drove to Asheville 2 weekends ago. Left Pittsburgh at 5. Had to<br>> deal with outbound rush and an accident by Southpointe. Dinner (tasty<br>> pizza joint) just before 9 in Fayetteville WV ... thanks to the Appalachian<br>> Development Highway System, we didn't have to go out of our way to<br>> Charleston. Bedded down before midnight at a hotel in Wytheville. That was<br>> no big deal. The trip back from Chattanooga(*) several days later was<br>> straight through to Charleston for dinner via Kingsport and routes 23 and<br>> 119, then on home. Long, to be sure, but still nothing like the old days.<br>> <br>> * We had dinner that Monday night by the Lookout Mountain incline. Closed<br>> already. Tuesday we rode it. Like the Duquesne Incline, you can walk<br>> beneath the boarding area and see the machinery... which was built in<br>> Pittsburgh! Very different than Pittsburgh or Johnstown survivors which are<br>> true planes, theirs follows the terrain.<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20140516/c529ac92/attachment.html <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>> Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>> https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br></div> </div>
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