PERC PRCo Fantrip

[John Swindler]

Charter order specified routing and times to avoid conflicts with scheduled 
service.  I have several from early 1960s, and they would specify departure 
from a time point down to minute.

Any deviation required call to dispatch (?).  Also car carried a route 
supervisor, which was frequently filled by John Baxter.  Now realize that 
his real purpose was probably to keep the railfans out of trouble.

Essentially, the order of the day was along the lines of "you guys can 
charter a car to tour our system, but we want to know where you are, that 
you are not blocking scheduled service, and that you don't do anything 
stupid."

John


>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 17:22:24 -0800
>
>Greetings!
>
> > Jim Holland wrote:
>
> >         Basically, a fan-trip could go anywhere and sometimes went where 
>it
> > shouldn't!!(:->)
>
>	Forgot to mention.......
>
>	Seemed like PERC  --  PRMA  --  PTM  would file a flight plan as to
>intentions of the trip and PRCo probably required something like this.
>	But with the system being so big, it would be difficult to include
>everything in one trip - don't even know if they ever covered the whole
>system in one charter before 1960!!  After that it got easier to do year
>by year!!
>
>James B. Holland
>
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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