PURE Fantasy -- PRCo 1800s -- Modellers License -- WHATIF......?????--!-!-!-!-!-!-!

[Bob Rathke]

Thanks for the summary, Jim.

Although my trolley modeling activities (HO) have been on hold since 1969 ( I still
have the catenary stored away), I found your paragraph below interesting.

Around 1950, I started to collect (read, "raid the motorman's garbage bag in the
back of the double-end car") PRC transfers - which I still have..  But even before
that time, at family gatherings I would be called upon to recite the numbers and
names of PRC trolley routes, at least those on the North Side with which I was
familiar.  I'm told I did this at age five when I'd start the entertainment with,
"1-Spring Garden, 2-Etna, 3-Millvale...22-Crosstown".  Appreciative aunts and
uncles would then respond with quarters for my efforts.

I wonder if any kids today know - or care about - the numbers of PAT bus routes....

Bob 1/2


> Jim Holland wrote:

>         I lived by the 42--Dormont Wye and saw much trolleycar action there.  I
> talked to many operators, rode with a few as their  *go--fer*  for
> sandwiches and sodas, punched the time clocks for them, talked to line
> crews, and used every excuse possible and impossible to ride the
> trolleycars!  It was in my blood  --  I am told that even as a very
> young baby that I would go completely bananas when we got near
> trolleycars.
>