[PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs

[John Swindler]

I'd settle for another day of Sunday pass riding on PRC over a Labor Day 
holiday in early 1960s.  Besides 56, 87 and 10/15, etc., Library usually had 
a five min. headway because of County Fair, and several of the 1600 
interurbans would be in service.  However, looking back, regret that more 
time - and film - was not spent on east end lines.  (but heck, I was only 
around 14 at the time)

I was too young to have vivid memories of a couple West Penn fantrips (I'm 
one of the little kids that kept wandering in front of the photo lines!!)  
Likewise memories of a couple Johnstown fantrips are difficult.  On several 
occasions, Fred the third and I have discussed 'what a difference seven 
years can make'.  (your turn, Fred)

John



>From: Harold Geissenheimer <transitmgr at worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Auctioned PCCs
>Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 16:17:35 -0400
>
>
>Greetings
>
>My rides to yesteryear would be the Liberty Bell Limited from
>Allentown to 69th street and the Fairmount Park open trolley.
>
>I was fortunate to travel to all the Pennsylvania systems such as
>Hershey, Allentown, Reading, Scranton, Laurel Line, Wilkes Barre.
>Altoona, Johnstown, Pittsburgh (and Wheeling) , Lancaster,
>Red Arrow and Philadelphia with Ray Miller when I was at NYU.
>Ray and I went every where based on his home in North Philadelphia.
>
>He later became a tanker captain for Atlantic Refining.  The Philadelphia
>Chapter of the NRHS honors his memory with an annual slide night.
>
>Thats my selection.
>
>Harold Geissenheimer
>
>"Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
>
> > We all have those places we wished we'd been old enough to see.  Or
> > places we want to go back to.  Jim Shuman, here in Lancaster, wanted to
> > go back to the Cincinnati and Lake Erie for one last ride into the
> > setting sun over Big Darby Trestle.  I'm sure one more trip to the
> > Indiana Railroad would have made him very happy, having watched him
> > grinning from ear to ear on a CSS&SB line car fantrip (he had ridden the
> > same car on the IRR).
> >
> > In my case, something I missed and deeply regret was Los Angeles Railway
> > / Los Angeles Transit Lines.  I loved glancing at the pictures you
> > attached Charlie.  I've never saw it as a rail system.  Only since the
> > 1970s.  But I saw enough pictures and slides, and I've crawled under an
> > adequate number of cars at OERM to have determined that they deserved a
> > nationwide permanent prize for maintenance excellence.  I don't need to
> > hear anything against National City Lines.  They ran one hell of a
> > trolley system in Los Angeles for as long as it was profitable to do so.
> >
> > Thanks Charlie.
> >
> > Charles Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > Okay, just to add my two cents worth, here's my idea for the next Muni
> > > PCC paint scheme (kinda reminds me of Fred the 3rd's idea)
> > > http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/larys/htm/lary246.htm
> > >
> > > Charlie
> > >
> > > Charlesebrown at webtv.net
>
>


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