[PRCo] Railroad excursions to PTM

[Bob Rathke]

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
destinations, so most movements didn't even get listed on anyone's fantrip
list, or even photographed.  But then, PRC did the same thing, using PCCs to
take church and school groups to the museum or amusement park.

Bob 4/10/02

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 7:10 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Railroad excursions to PTM


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> I was on a chartered passenger train that operated
> Washington-Pittsburgh-Washington carrying Boy Scouts to see the original
> Cinerama movie at the Warner Theater.  Not being much of a movie buff, I
> don't know the year for sure but I'm guessing 1954 or 1955.  So it's a bit
> less than 50 years!  We rode from and to Canonsburg that frigid day; the
> walk from Penn Station to Fifth Avenue seemed to take forever.
>
> Ed
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> Dennis F. Cramer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:14 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Railroad excursions to PTM
>
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> Yes, there will be three excursions to PTM from Carnegie.  It will be the
> first time in 50 years that a passenger train has traversed these rails.
> Ohio Central will build a platform on the far side of their tracks from
the
> museum line near Museum Road.  Members of the museum operations department
> are being recruited by Scott Becker to work as docents on the trains.
>
> Dennis F. Cramer--Teacher-Trombonist-Historian-Conductor
> www.geocities.com/armconband
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