[PRCo] Re: Electric Railway Accidents

prcopcc at p-r-co.com prcopcc at p-r-co.com
Sun Sep 25 23:54:10 EDT 2005


You are right, Jerry - the motorman would stop for you and allow you to run 
into the bushes.       My Dad sheepishly asked the motorman on a Pittsburgh 
bound PCC from Washington to stop the car so he could take me out.       
"""Not__The__Wheels!"""  my Dad Exclaimed!
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> Fred Schneider writes: 
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> HOLD IT. 
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> On Sep 25, 2005, at 10:00 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote: 
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>> Fred and all other contributors! 
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>> Thanks for the "exciting and endless" postings related to accidents  
>> with interurbans, I have printed and added to my Trolley Files. 
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>> thanks gentlemen! 
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>> PS - I got a question,  i never had to go, but on the interurban  
>> runs from Pittsburgh to Washington
>> and Charleroi, what if you have to use the facility?   what did you  
>> do?   Jump in the woods?
>> On my recent visit to PTM, Mark Mcguire and myself got on the T to  
>> go downtown, and boy did I
>> have an experience, thankful for a Sandwich shop near the Library  
>> station, or it would have been
>> a disaster for me!    So where did one go when riding the interurbans? 
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>> This should lead to interesting responses. 
>>
>> Jerry M
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Jim__Holland
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I....Like....IKE__---__And....PCCs!
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down...with...pantographs.......
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UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!



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