[PRCo] Re: Navigating___The___El

[Jim Holland]

That scene looks too precarious for even a TrolleyCar to navigate  --  
Extremely close to those columns.
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Family came to Chicago to visit in late 1960s when astronauts were in 
town.       I lived in Zion near Wisconsin state line so we drove to 
Skokie and took the El from there.       The youngest in the family sat 
near the window beside my Mom and she almost had my Mom on the floor  
--  El comes quite close to the buildings in many places!!!



Fred Schneider wrote:
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> I'm old enough now to have ridden it ... six tokens for a quarter.... 
> 1.6 miles long ... the Queensboro Bridge Railway was shorter than the 
> Pennsylvania Trolley Museum and it included a nice ride on the outside 
> edge of the Queensboro Bridge looking down into the East River without 
> even a girder to give comfort to the paranoid. The picture was taken 
> in the Second Avenue terminal in Manhattan. The motorman's toilet was 
> the back side of any one of the columns that a passenger could not see.
>
> On Jan 21, 2007, at 6:38 PM, Jim Holland wrote:
>
>> Here's one for Fred -- navigating a "bus" through El columns::
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http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/QBRY%20%20601%202nd%20AV%20TERM.jpg