[PRCo] Re: 4398

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings
Paul OBrien, LRT UTA Mgr worked for me in Chicago before he went
to Buffalo, LA Blue Line start up mgr, Sacramento and now Salt Lake,
He follows the CTA tradition established by Geoge Krambles  of fast
operation..

Harold Geissenheimer

trams at adelphia.net wrote:

>There might have been a dozen passengers on our car (of a 3-car train) heading for Sandy at about 7:30 last night.  There was also an event at the basketball arena, so inbound trains were running pretty full.  What impressed me was the speed of the trip.  I don't know the distance, but they run a 37-minute schedule from the UP station and a hunk of that in town is on the street.  They fly low the rest of the way...the accelerator is either on or off.  It's the fastest ride I've seen since Dallas.  Didn't ride to the University...decided dinner was more compelling.
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>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Date: 2004/04/01 Thu AM 10:12:02 EST
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398
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>UTA seemed to have a reasonably strong business.  I just could never figure out what possessed them to end it at a stadium and a one a day train station instead of going north to the capitol complex with all the state workers.   Hmmm if the city is "capital" and the building is "capitol," what is a complex of buildings surrounding it where people work?   Find any good places to buy beer?
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>>I'm in Utah, watching TRAX LRVs parade past the hotel when I'm not working a convention.  I even rode one this afternoon.  Cars are clean, service is good.  Wonder why they got away from the folding doors (in favor of sliding ones) on the second order of cars?
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>>Janis's employer has seen fit to provide her with a laptop computer on which to display things at our booth, so for a mere 10 bucks a day (plus tax and recappable tire), we have an Internet connection in our room.  Yes, the employer pays the ten-plus bucks, too, along with the room.  And I'm told that the $42 steaks in the restaurant downstairs are mighty tolerable, too.  So far I've drawn the line at that, even though I'm not paying...last night we went across the street to a JB's and had dinner for two for half that amount!  We may take a ride down to Sandy this evening as a diversion.
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>>We go to California Sunday morning.
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>>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>>Date: 2004/03/31 Wed PM 07:22:25 EST
>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398
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>>I thought you were in California?
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>>>Just about any place in Western Pennsylvania is cheaper than California.  But you get what you pay for sometimes, and that's either positive or negative, depending on one's reliance upon government for services.
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>>>From: rogertrolley.1 at juno.com
>>>Date: 2004/03/31 Wed PM 12:02:43 EST
>>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398
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>>>Hey guys. I would really like to abandon California for a cheaper place to live. Any such place exist near PTM ???  Gas prices here are out of sight and now at $2.23 for reg. !!!!!   cheers rogertrolley      I finally got to San Pedro to see the Red Car operation there with two replica PE 500 class cars and the real PE 1057 rebuilt out of a ten and nine hundred class car. Richard Fellows boatyard was next to Terminal Island where hundreds of PE cars were scrapped. He suceeded in dragging 2 hulks over to his yard and spliced them together to create the #1057, which was one number higher than the PE tens went. A great operation of only 1 3\4 miles long. Operates friday thru monday 8am to 6pm.  A great ride with a passing track in middle. Also rode the New Pasadena Gold line. A truley funky operation of a lite rail line on all kinds of right-of-way. Center of freeway ,tunnel, P-R-W, middle of a street at 20mph and numerous road crossings where several collisions and near mi!
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>>> have ocurred with brain dead drivers, plus elevated concrete structures and finally ending at LA UNION STA. where in order to get to downtown ,the Red Line heavy rail is taken three stations !!!!  $3 all day pass gets you anywhere you want to go. Only parking is at Pasadena end at Sierra Madre Sta. where a free parking garage is located beside the I-210.
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