[PRCo] Re: fair week at PTM

[Edward H. Lybarger]

That's not quite the whole story.  It was almost 1100 people from ONE STOP
in three hours.  There were two other stops from which passengers
originated.  Part of Tim Jones's preliminary report is included below:

"For a quick Fair update - On Wednesday, which is traditionally our busiest
day of the fair, we sold 1325 fair tickets (almost 1100 from the Cooper
Parking Lot) and 19 regular admission visitors for a total of 1344.  That is
almost double what we did on Wednesday in 2007.  This means we carried at
least 2400 passengers (had to get those 1100 people to the fair and back, so
they count twice).  And we used six cars to do it."

Ed

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Schneider Fred
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:12 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: fair week at PTM

Not sure what night Dennis took those pictures.

The amazing thing was that on Wednesday night ... the night of the school
bus demolition derby at the fair grounds ... PTM was running a
12 minute headway with second sections on every other trip ... six  
cars in service at one time.   The museum handle one thousand, one  
hundred (1,100) passengers in three hours time.

It was sedate during the day Friday when I worked.   The most I had  
on one car was 40 people.

On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Dennis F. Cramer wrote:

> As most of you know, I retired from my position as a high school band 
> director in June.  Band Camp began on August 11th and for the first 
> time in many years, I was able to volunteer at the
> Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington, PA during Fair Week.   
> The following webpage shows a little of the action.  I was also able 
> to requalify several operators, get requalified myself and Ed, Bruce & 
> I put the finishing touches on the 2009 calendar.
> http://sites.google.com/site/patrolleymuseumfairweek/
>
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> Dennis F. Cramer
>       Trombone
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