PAT treatment of "PRC"

[Fred W. Schneider III]

What a wonderful ride it was too.  I remembered one did not put his face
outside of a CNS&M coach window ... its use as a bug swatter caused some
discomfort.  And peaking through the engineman's door coming down the Skokie
Valley on an Electroliner with at speedometer hanging on 80 all the way was
quite an experience.  And no, I did not try an Electroburger ... I was a
serviceman and the army did not give me enough money for such luxuries.  I
got off at Zion and had lunch.

The tie to Pennsylvania ... one of the Electroliners is at Orbisonia.

brathke at juno.com wrote:

> Earlier today I drove on Green Bay Road through Highland Park and Lake
> Forest, Illinois and noted that  the old Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee
> interurban right-of-way still exists, even though the line was abanoned
> in 1963.  You can still see station platform pilings and numerous bridges
> over the highway.  Some of these bridges now carry a bike trail that's
> been built on the old interurban line, and several of the concrete
> bridges still have the raised words, "North Shore
> Line...Chicago...Milwaukee".  Just think, if PAT had been in charge,
> those bridges in 1964 would have had their wording reduced to "North
> Shore" - period.
>
> And, today I also read that the proposal to extend the Skokie Swift line
> north of the Dempster St. terminal is still active.  Skokie Swift is the
> caternary powered segment of the CNS&M interurban line that CTA operates
> from Howard St. to Dempster St.  The trolley right of way north of
> Dempster St. still exists, and runs parallel to the C&NW (now UP)
> railroad line to Lake Forest, and probably also much of the way to
> Kenosha and Milwaukee.
>
> Bob 10/4
>
> -----------------------
> Ask questions.
> -----------------------
>
> ________________________________________________________________
> YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
> Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
> Try it today - there's no risk!  For your FREE software, visit:
> http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.