[PRCo] Re: Interurban Accidents

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

Fred

I can take it all, believe it or not, picture this, Strasburg Railroad, on Honeymoon 1969, wife and I sitting in the Hello Dolly open car, wife get cinder in her eye, good way to mess up a honeymoon, oh she ended up fine and we drive over to the Burgh and take the new wife on her first (and last) trip on the Shannon Library line.

Jerry

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> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2005/09/25 Sun PM 02:25:30 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Interurban Accidents
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> Not if you are on the crew John.   The first accident that the new  
> management of the Strasburg Rail Road had to contend with in 1958 or  
> 1959 was a man who was driving along Pa 741 outside of Strasburg PA  
> and elected to drive past two railroad men with blazing fusees and  
> under a railroad boxcar.    As I recall, his action separated the  
> brain housing group from the rest of the body.
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> The most common accident on that railroad was really nothing  
> outstanding.  The did, however, keep a doctor on call to handle  
> cinders in the eyes.  They were pretty much routine.
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> Jerry:   How much more of this can you stand?
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> fws
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> On Sep 25, 2005, at 9:02 AM, John Swindler wrote:
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> > Of course the one I always like is when someone runs into the SIDE  
> > of a
> > train at a grade crossing (:>)
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