[PRCo] Re: Another trip

[John Swindler]

Does Breezewood come to mind??

John S.


>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Another trip
>Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:50:01 -0400
>
>Nearby merchants have a big interest in preventing direct connections
>between expressways.  They always prevail until the situation becomes
>impossible and the remedy costs 20-30 times what it would have in the first
>place.  And the merchants, amazingly, have plenty of business after the 
>work
>is done, in spite of their prophecies of doom.  If you have to stop to 
>rest,
>to eat or to refuel, you'll do it anyway.
>
>Ed
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
>rogertrolley.1 at juno.com
>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 12:38 AM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Another trip
>
>
>
>ONE BIG QUESTION !!  When is PA TURNPIKE going to build a decent connection
>to the I-81 to Scranton going east ??? I sure did not see any signs telling
>you how to get to that blasted road and ended up traveling a circuitous
>route up thru Allentown on rt 6 !! I ended up passing up Scranton and
>stopping there on the return trip. The wiered part was asking people at gas
>stations how to get to Scranton and getting blank looks and statements that
>they never heard of the place !!!  I did manage to ride the trolley thru 
>the
>tunnel and back on former L&WV R-O-W . THat place is strange too as the 
>line
>the car runs on has no connection to get to their big carhouse, and instead
>lives in its own one track structure along the line. In order to get to the
>Electric City carhouse ,they would have to build a crossing over the steam
>tracks to get there, which isn't in their current plans I guess !! cheers
>rogertrolley
>

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