[PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs -was!

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

   Fred
   Aunt still living there (Donoa)states that with the new Mon Valley Expressway that runs just west of Monongahela, Donora and Charleroi that  Yuppies and coming into the valley and getting some of the older nice homes "Cheap" and restoring them, and the commute is not bad back into Pgh.
I understand taxes are alot less in Washington Cty than in Allegheny.

Jerry

> 
> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2005/10/26 Wed PM 03:16:13 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs -was!
> 
> Fifty-four hundred is smaller than even I realized, Jerry.    Ouch.
> 
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 2:52 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> > B
> > Your home town sounds alot like my old hometwon of Donora, however  
> > I am sure it is alot nicer.
> > Donora lost all its industry and the town went from 14,000 in the  
> > 1950s to 5400 at present.
> > I  have been to Switzerland and love riding the trains, trams, and  
> > all their transportation system.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >>
> >> From: "Boris Cefer" <westinghouse at iol.cz>
> >> Date: 2005/10/26 Wed PM 12:09:33 EDT
> >> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs -was!
> >>
> >> My home town. But it changed so considerably over the years. The  
> >> heavy
> >> industry we had is now partly gone because we don't need steel for  
> >> the Cold
> >> War. The air in the downtown lost the smell of sulphur because the  
> >> iron
> >> furnaces and coke plants that were just adjacent the downtown are  
> >> either
> >> gone or defunct.
> >>
> >> Switzerland? All people who I know and they visited Switzerland  
> >> sing songs
> >> on this country. Railfans are in paradise. Some say that  
> >> Switzerland was
> >> built on railroads. That is not only the advantage of having a  
> >> bank account
> >> there!
> >>
> >> B
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 5:58 PM
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Boris has his home town ...  I have my favorite places too.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Oct 26, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Boris Cefer wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> And this is what makes also small countries nice.
> >>>>
> >>>> B
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 1:01 AM
> >>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I agree with Boris on this one.   There are thousands of those  
> >>>>> little
> >>>>> towns scattered across Europe.   We used to have them.   We  
> >>>>> don't any
> >>>>> more.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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