[PRCo] Re: fair week at PTM

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

Dennis, Ed, Fred and all others up at PTM -  Dennis the pictures were just super, can you imagine
putting the Fair Week at PTM  in action on a DVD, that would be a big seller at PTM's Gift shoppe, I for one would purchase one, as it would show "Maximum Operation" all the Museum plus the excitement
of a grande ole County Fair.   Something to think about.
Special Thanks to all of you great PTM'ers.

Jerry Matsick
Jacksonville
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Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
You don't stop laughing because 
you grow old. You grow old 
because you stop laughing from the 
River City by the sea! 
Jacksonville, Florida!

-------------- Original message from "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>: -------------- 


> 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 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org 
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of 
> Schneider Fred 
> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:12 PM 
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
> 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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