Amusement Parks and Zoos

[brathke at juno.com]

Derrick,

Your post has a meaningful conclusion.  If you don't mind, I'd like to
paraphrase, "Take a picture before it's gone," and use it as my e-mail
signature for the next few weeks.

Bob 10/7

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On Fri, 6 Oct 2000 22:55:50 -0400 (EDT) Derrick J Brashear
<shadow at dementia.org> writes:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Donald Galt wrote:
> 
> > Sydney's Luna Park is very intimately connected with railways, 
> > having arisen on the site of the Milson's Point station yards. 
> Briefly, 
> > from electrification in 1927 until the opening of the bridge in 
> 1932, 
> > MU trains ran right through the heart of what are now its grounds.
> 
> So, how about things near Pittsburgh? ;-)
> 
> Heck, it turns out where the Dickerson Run/Dawson line met the 
> Phillips
> line in Leisenring on the West Penn "back line" between 
> Connellsville and
> Uniontown, they built an ice rink and some sort of other facility 
> which I
> know they're having concerts in.
> 
> When I got my license the area was covered in coal tailings from its
> previous occupation, and while some of it may have been I didn't 
> know
> exactly where to look it wasn't obvious precisely where the junction 
> was,
> only that that was the right spot.
> 
> Heading north toward the river on the branch was evident, and I 
> recall it
> was easy to guess on either side of that area where the back line 
> ran, at
> least for a bit.
> 
> This probably serves as another reminder to me to "take pictures 
> before
> it's all gone"
> 
> -D
> 
> 

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