[PRCo] Re: 1984 Grand Tour

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

Fred
Thanks Fred,  had good weather most of the time last week at the TCA York Pa train meet, didn't get over to my favorite spot of Strasburg.    Also what happened to the talk of a trolley line in Lancaster?
The Cherry Blossoms on Market Street in York were super nice last week.  

Jerry M
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> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: 2007/04/26 Thu PM 04:11:36 EST
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: 1984 Grand Tour
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> Never was Jerry.    Bill used the Monongahela Railway - Pennsylvania  
> Railroad afternoon northbound passenger train to make the connection  
> from Brownsville to Roscoe.
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> I'm looking at a 1945 Official Guide which shows one round trip a  
> day ... train 806 southbound in the morning out of Union Station  
> (PRR) Pittsburgh at 8:35 AM, Brownsville at 10:45 AM, then onto the  
> Monongahela, Morgantown at 12:20 PM and terminating at Fairmount at  
> 1:10 PM.
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> The northbound: train 833...left Fairmount at 3 PM, got to Morgantown  
> at 3:47, to Brownsville at 5:15, and then onto the Pennsy, and it  
> arrived in Pittsburgh at 7:43 PM.
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> The Pennsy put a 7 in front of the Monongahela train numbers (7806  
> southbound and 7833 northbound).   There were three other PRR trains  
> running between Pittsburgh and Brownsville on weekdays in 1945 but  
> the Monongahela connection was the only afternoon northbound.   The  
> PRR showed it out of Brownsville Union Station at 5:25 and into  
> Roscoe at 5:44 PM.
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> Sufficient answer Jerry?
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> On Apr 26, 2007, at 4:58 PM, <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> > I ran across a "Grand Tour" map of  WestPenn/PRCo and other Trolley  
> > lines which took place back in 1984.    On the map West Penn went  
> > from Uniontown to Brownsville, and then a "other trolley" line
> > is listed from Brownsville to Roscoe and connection to the PRCo.    
> > My question was there in fact
> > a "other trolley" that ran from Brownsville to Roscoe?    Everyone  
> > is saying just another dumb question from Jerry
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> > You don't know if you don't ask?
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> > Jerry M
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