[PRCo] Re: Navigating___The___El

[Ken & Tracie]

I'm surprised nobody commented on that car's sagging platform.

I wonder if the rails are still embedded in that terminal floor?

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Holland" <prcopcc at p-r-co.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:16 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Navigating___The___El


> That scene looks too precarious for even a TrolleyCar to navigate  --
> Extremely close to those columns.
> .
> 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!!!
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> 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::
>>>
> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/QBRY%20%20601%202nd%20AV%20TERM.jpg
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