[PRCo] Re: 35-Library Express

[Jim Holland]

 >>> HrB responded:
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 >>> 1. 5 minutes
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SHJ to CS?!?! Certainly not if you caughtRed Boards. 5-min would mean 
you made it through all sidings without interruption as well. That would 
seem Almost Impossible.
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 >>> 2. often (block signals kept cars apart)
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 Given - Catching Red Board same as Catching Leader
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 >>> 3. as fast as the traffic could bear
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 >>>4. why would I do that????? They pay us by the hour ;-)
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 >>>Yes, Jim they did have 35-Library Express.
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 Not In Question, Herb, Have some schedules!! :-> . 'They' iz 
({[pat]})   Until about 1950 this was very much standard operation on 
PRCo - Interurbans to Charleroi // Washington did normal loop downtown, 
ran Very Limited  (stopped at Frederick St  --  don't understand the 
importance there)  SHJ to CS At All Times All Day then operated locally 
outbound of CS wye/loop. By late 50 early 1951, PCCs sported Shannon- 
Char or Wash and ran locally whole length of line.
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 >>> They also had 36-Drake Express.
 >>> It did not work as well as the 35 and
 >>> was replaced by a bus.
 >>> Ask Harold Geissenheimer,
 >>> he is the one who started that service.
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 >> Jim Holland <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>[12] wrote:
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 >> How far away was your leader?
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 >> How oftendid you catch your leader?
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 >> How fast did you get the car moving?
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 >> Did you clock yourself SHJ to Castle Shannon?
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 > Herb wrote:
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 > I was doing a 35-Library Express
 > (short turn downtown via 4th Ave
 > tracks and no stops from SHJct to Castle Shannon).