[PRCo] Re: 1788/ interurbans

[roger]

You sure know how to pick them Fred. Just about every ride you went on was
in my mental pix of lines to ride if I could have found a time machine to
transport myself back . Can only look at videos and wish I was there. Like
when I was in Pittsburgh in 1956 & 1957. So many trolley lines to ride and
take movies of and not enough time or money to do them all. So had to pick
which ones. Hard choices indeed. The interurbans,pieces of Fineview and
Mckeesport outer end. Stumbled across the franchise car on Trafford. Some of
87 Ardmore . The flood of cars downtown and some of this was done in a
raging snowstorm or stifeling humid heat of summer. Boy were those 1700s hot
to ride, but a thrill nontheless !!  Rogertrolley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 4:52 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1788/ interurbans


> 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