PERC PRCo Fantrip

[John Swindler]

The ERA ran a two-day fantrip around 1962 using three cars each day.  
Covered less then half the system.


>From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: PERC    PRCo    Fantrip
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:45:41 -0800
>
>Greetings!
>
>	Basically, a fan-trip could go anywhere and sometimes went where it
>shouldn't!!(:->)
>
>	PRCo was a very large system right up to the end of PRCo and it would
>be extremely difficult to cover everything, actually impossible.  Photo
>stops consume definite time.  Charters often were planned around a
>theme, district, or special emphasis.  But as hints and rumors of
>abandonment arose, those lines would be specifically covered, even
>multiple times.
>
>	As word of the 56-line abandonment leaked out, that line was definitely
>included and was used as an excuse for a fantrip!
>
> > mrb190 wrote:
>
> > The last couple fantrip write-ups here puzzled me.  I would have thought
> > that route 56 would have been included in these fantrips simply because 
>it
> > was such an interesting inter-city line.  Was it difficult to arrange
> > fantrips on route 56?
>
> > Matt
>
>James B. Holland
>
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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