[PRCo] Re: 1788/ interurbans

[Fred Schneider]

We would all like to have someone else's memories. Oh, what I wouldn't give to ride an Illinois Terminal sleeper train from Peoria to St. Louis, or the Lake Shore Electric out of Public Square, Cleveland.  I think the last trip of the day from Cincinnati to Detroit on the Cincinnati and Lake Erie would be prime.  Or how about a Indiana Railroad high speed from Indianapolis to Anderson and Fort Wayne, then one of the ex ISC RPO cars through Peru (Pee'-ru) and back to the capital, and if there was still enough time, one of the 427s out to Terre Haute.  Or wouldn't a 1200 volt Pacific Electric car to San Bernardino be great?  Going from Chico to the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair on the Sacramento Northern would also be OK.  And I would be somewhere between 90 and 100 years old today.

I guess I should just be happy that I saw the Montreal and Southern Counties, rode a Montreral sight seeing car, saw Philly when it was full of Nearsides, and Allentown, Johnstown, Scranton, Cleveland, Chicago.

I guess I like better the thought of having time left to cross a few more bridges.   fws

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