[PRCo] Re: Puerto Rico

[roger]

Harold: The last time I was in Puerto Rico was with my father,who was in the
Army Air Corps , in Jan 1941 and he was stationed at the airfield there. My
brother,mother,et al were there until evacuated off with the rest of the
dependants after Dec 7th. Saw a lot of small steam operations amongst the
sugar cane fields, where the narrow gage took carloads of cane away to the
sugar factories. A pix of downtown Ponce showed trolley track remnents , but
small buses running in their place. I was six then, but the RR bug had
bitten already!!  Rogertrolley aka trolleycar2003
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rathke" <bobrathke at attbi.com>
To: "Pittsburgh Rys. List" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 8:32 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Puerto Rico


> Harold,
>
> I am one of the railfans who has been in Puerto Rico recently.  A couple
of
> years ago we were there for a week, but unfortunately we didn't see much
> rail at that time.  We had a rental car and drove all around the island.
No
> problem finding people who spoke good English. Puerto Rico seemed like a
> Spanish-speaking U.S. state to us.  Even the Walgreens stores there had
the