[PRCo] Oakdale

[Bob Rathke]

I have a friend who grew up in McDonald, and he still lives there.  He
complains that the town is too small to warrant a namesake McDonalds
restaurant.

He also remembers how the Army's anit-aircraft radar conrol facility in
Oakdale used to interfere with TV reception in the area, and every 12
seconds (the time that the radar antenna needed to make one revolution), a
beep would be heard on residents' TV sets.  People would complain, and an
Army officer would be dispatched to town meetings to remind everyone that
the radar was needed for a critical Civil Defense function.  The TV beeps
were not eliminated as long as the radar station operated.

The Oakdale radar dome was visible from the Parkway West as you drove
northwest of Steubenville Pike (Route 60) heading toward the airport.

Bob 3/31/04

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:48 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: 4398


> Roger
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> If you are a veteran, there is a military base in Oakdale which can
provide
> some services.  McDonald, Pa. used to be a nice little town.  Have
> not been there recently.  Washington, Pa. or Canonsburg also good.
> Perry Coleman was feom Canonsburg
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> Harold Geissenheimer
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> trams at adelphia.net wrote:
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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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> >Ed
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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 misse!
> s!
> > 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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