[PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs -was!

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

  Supposed to continue the expressway over to the east hills area and connect with the parkway over there somewhere, oh well I will be driving the spiritual 1711 in Heaven by then.

Jerry
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> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2005/10/26 Wed PM 04:00:31 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Russian___PCCs -was!
> 
> Ed Lybarger has always told me that taxes are always less in  
> Washington county.   Right now the commute to Pittsburgh on the Mon- 
> Valley Expressway dumps you on old 51 at Large, and then you are  
> stuck on the old road through Pleasant Hills and Saw Mill Run  
> Boulevard through the Liberty Tubes.   And when they finish the  
> expressway it will add more congestion to the Parkway East, if I  
> understand the plan?????
> 
> Build a road and they will come......
> 
> On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:27 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net>  
> <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> 
> >    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
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> 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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