[PRCo] Re: PSSST - WANNA BUY LOUSY PICTURES?

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Fred

When I visited Tri City Traction in Bluefield, their were no interstates or turnpikes.
My Trailways bus went US 1 to Washington, change to Greyhound to Roanoke.
Then Consolidated bus line of W Va to Bluefield.  It took about 24 hours.

On this trip, I stopped in Roanoke and rode the trolley there.  The had a Grand
Union.  One in Bethlehem also I believe.

Harold Geissenheimer

Fred Schneider wrote:

> A whole lot faster to drive from New York to Roanoke via I-78 and I-81.  No small
> wonder that the trains and over-the-road buses have all but vanished.   In my youth,
> the Pennsy / Norfolk and Western still had two daily trains a day ... the Harrisburg
> - Roanoke day train, and the night train with carried a New York and Roanoke
> sleeper.  Of course this was a drastic drop from the peak.  I never saw them on this
> end, but I did see the sleeper train behind a class J 4-8-4 after dinner one evening
> at a small town north of Roanoke where it passed a southbound freight being mauled by
> a Y6b Mallet.  I think I also photographed a Mack bus in Roanoke the day before and
> it even had passengers on it.  .  Wouldn't we all like to go back to those pre
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