[PRCo] Re: Railroad excursions to PTM

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

Re PRC charters.  Since they had few buses, they used PCC cars
for most charters.  Every community that had a school picnic at
either Kennywood or West View had fleets of PCC cars if possible.

I mentioned previously that they even chartered PCC cars to the
National Guard to move soldiers from the Oakland Armory to
the East Liberty PRR station enroute to summer camp.  I was there
carrying a rifle!

I am sure that there were baseball charters to Forbes Field and football ones
to Pitt stadium.

Never rode a charteed train except for the Cotrdic campaign train to
Connelsville and Wheeling.  That was sold as a fan trip of sorts.

Bob Rathke wrote:

> The original Cinerama opened at the Warner Theater in 1954.  I believe it
> was one of only a handful of theaters in the country equipped to show its
> 3-camera/3-projector presentation.  One of the segments in the film was an
> aerial tour of the "new" Pittsburgh, taken from a converted B-25 flying over
> the city.
>
> It's always surprising to hear about those special train movements over
> railroads' branch lines in the 1950s.  Many of them were not fantrips, but
> were simply trains chartered to take groups of people to various
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