[PRCo] Re: Mod PAT Train

[Fred Schneider]

I recall riding it once in the early 70s.   PAT had a weekend pass  
which was valid, not just on buses and streetcars but on the trains  
too.   And parents had this nasty habit of givings the little  
darlings money to get rid of them.   The trainmen were all huddled  
out in the vestibules while the kids ran around like little savages  
inside the coaches.   A very pleasant experience.    The nice part  
about it was its brevity ... a much shorter return to Pittsburgh than  
the replacement bus for the 56 or 68 car.

Had the ratio been more like the Silverton train (4 hours train  
versus 90 minutes on the bus between Silverton and Durango), I'd have  
taken the bus back to Pittsburgh.

On Mar 26, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Bob Rathke wrote:

> The locomotive in the photo attached by Mark is a B&O passenger GP7  
> - it was
> previously used on the B&O's Pittsburgh-Connellsville commuter  
> train until
> it was discontinued in April, 1965 (I rode the last trip).  The GP7  
> came
> back in the 1970's (painted Chessie yellow) for use on the PAT  
> train, and
> later it was replaced by an F7 that was painted orange and brown.
>
> When PAT discontinued the PATrain train,  I believe that the  
> locomotive and
> cars went to another transit system.
>
> Bob 3/26/06
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark McGuire" <macmarka at netzero.net>
> To: <Pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 4:20 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Mod PAT Train
>
>
>>  I never realized that PAT painted the trains in the mod schemes
>> also. URL at bottom shows a PAT train in McKeesport dated 9-76.
>>                           Mark
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>> -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
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>> -- Desc: PAT Train 9-76 McKeesport.jpg
>> -- Size: 17k (17409 bytes)
>> -- URL : 
>> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/PAT%20Train% 
>> 209-76%20McKeesport.jpg
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