<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Care to share any of your Dad's photos or elaborate what type of maintenance was conducted at Plummer CH?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:9px;color:#575757">Sent on the new Sprint Network from my Samsung Galaxy S®4.</div></div><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: D Brashear <shadow@dementix.org> </div><div>Date:09/03/2014 3:45 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Western PA Trolley discussion <pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [PRCo] Plummer Street Car House </div><div><br></div>On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider@comcast.net><br>wrote:<br><br>> Jim,<br>><br>> The W in Fred W. Schneider stands for Windy. :<)<br>><br>> You are bringing back memories …. very fond memories Jim. The week<br>> beginning March 28 and ending around April 6th, 1953 was my spring break<br>> from 8th grade. Monday I rode the interurban to Washington and Tuesday I<br>> rode the Charleroi line. That was back in the days when teenagers knew<br>> what the limits were and could even go into stores unattended without being<br>> evicted. Don't know about your neighborhood, but I know of some malls<br>> today (South Hills Village for example) that will not let kids under 18 in<br>> without a parent or guardian.<br>><br><br>"Those days" included my teen years. I routinely shopped unattended,<br>including at SHV.<br><br>><br>> OK, come Saturday … that would be April 4th, I had documents from<br>> Pittsburgh Railways to let my father and me into both Plummer Street and<br>> Tunnel car houses to take pictures. My father, being a model builder and<br>> an engineer, was more interested than I was. The shop foeman at Plummer<br>> Street was telling him all about the maintenance practices and he was<br>> enthralled. Me, I was doubled over in pain.<br>><br>><br>Plummer St's Thorofare nee Giant Eagle is currently being reopened as a<br>Busy Beaver home improvement center. Think a smaller Home Depot/Lowes with<br>less stuff (and in some cases, not as good. they used to be better but they<br>are sort of a local discount home improvement chain). There are banners up<br>outside, or were when I biked past last week.<br><br>--<br>Daria<br><br><br><br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20140903/901f1883/attachment.html <br>_______________________________________________<br>Pittsburgh-railways mailing list<br>Pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<br>https://mailman.dementix.org/mailman/listinfo/pittsburgh-railways<br>
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