[PRCo] Re: Mark McGuire

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

As someone who had the opportunity to ride various routes of the Pittsburgh Railways and always a nut about streetcars either in Pittsburgh or wherever I traveled, it was Mark McGuire who rekindled a very fond admiration of the those fantastic trolley cars of days gone by, along with meeting great
and knowledgable people like Fred, Ed and Derrick and Scott at PTM.  Talking with Jim and Boris on email also has increased my interests in those old Yellow cars and the Crimson and Cream cars of the PRCo

My wife says do you not have anything to talk about or do other than Pittsburgh Railways I said no,
so it is back on the train and trolley layout or on the web looking and talking trolleys and thanks
to our special buddy Mark.

Jerry Matsick
> 
> From: "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>
> Date: 2005/11/09 Wed PM 08:04:11 EST
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Location?
> 
>   On the contrary, Jim. I haven't been hanging around PRCo railfans
> long enough!  Never had the chance to ride on a chartered trip.
> Just missed the last run of Drake as I didn't purchase my first computer until Sept. 1999 and wasn't yet a member of PTM. 
>   I wonder if PAT charters LRVs. It just wouldn't be the same though.
> 
> -- "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:
> Mark McGuire wrote:
> 
> > From what I've seen, railfans liked to have the dest. sign matching or 
> > at least close to where they were at the time. The PRMA map of 1959 
> > shows St. Clair (between Highland and Negley) as early trackage.    I 
> > don't know anything about this but maybe this was once St.Clair 
> > Transfer.  From the routes covered in Jim's post I would surmise that 
> > this may be Euclid between Penn and Centre.  Perhaps this trackage was 
> > used to get to and from rts 75 and 88????   Just a novice's guess.
> 
> 
> EXCELLENT   detective work.       Railfans Often use Out Of Town 
> dustynation signs and this was my first impression  --  had never seen 
> anything like this on PRCo!       Railfans often like to purposely 
> confuse destination signs as well like using East End signs in West End  
> --  have seen many such photos.       PITTSBURGH   is displayed on JTC 
> PCC 408 when PERC members went there for an excursion.
> 
> I like your reasoning about St.Clair as a destination and your guess of 
> a location follows.
> 
> I said 62 mainly because of the single track  --  homes are too tightly 
> grouped for 62.       Ed has pretty much cleared this up.
> 
> You have been hanging around PRCo RailFans Too Long, Mark!!!!!!!
> 
> 
> 
> > John Swindler wrote:
> > .
> >
> >> There was a 1537 fantrip in .... spring 1962 ??? (first fantrip after 
> >> getting a 35mm camera)
> >
> >
> > -- "James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com> wrote:
> > 1960.07.17 1537 PRCo 7, 8, 10, 15, 21, 55, 58, 62, 64, 75, 77/54, 87, 88.
> >
> >
> >> Anyway - how about Larimar loop?? Connecting track in Homewood 
> >> between Hamilton and Frankstown??? Not hilly enough for 85 ???
> >>
> >> Just some guesses.
> >
> >
> >
> > My guess is 62.
> >
> >
> >
> >>> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas? This chartered PCC was photographed some time in the 50s, 
> >>> but =where?
> >>>
> >>> B
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1537%20unknown.jpg
> >>
> 
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> 
> Jim__Holland
> 
> 
> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
> 
> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
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