[PRCo] Re: Navigating___The___El

[Fred Schneider]

One of them is "preserved" at the Trolley Museum of New York in  
Kingston.   I use the quotes with great deliberation because the  
platforms have sagged to the point where they are touching the  
ground.   It has become a true ferrous-oxide deposit.   It has just  
rusted to a hulk.

On Jan 21, 2007, at 8:27 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> I'm surprised nobody commented on that car's sagging platform.
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> I wonder if the rails are still embedded in that terminal floor?
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> K.
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> ----- 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
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>> 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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