[PRCo] Re: did i miss the comments on this?

[Fred Schneider]

I don't remember seeing anything on the list for days ... it's been  
dead.   This was the Panhandle tunnel that PAT (the T) uses now.   
Never rode through the tunnel on a train; only on a PAT LRT.  It goes  
to Union Station, so named because it united the Pittsburgh, For  
Wayne and Chicago, the Panhandle and the Pennsylvania to the east.    
But Union Station never included the non PRR carriers.    The closest  
we ever came to a true "Union" station was the P&LE station which the  
B&O also used.

I arrived in Pittsburgh once on the B&O from Cleveland back in  
1959.   I was in the army and coming home on leave from Texas.   I  
was probably the only serviceman in the history of the army who took  
two full weeks to get home.   I had to look at the trolleys in St.  
Louis, ride the North Shore, ride the South Shore, photograph the  
Lake Street elevated on the ground, walk the Shaker Rapid, walk all  
over Pittsburgh.   That B&O night train from Cleveland to Washington  
was jammed.   The young bitch in the seat next to me bore all the  
conveniences of a wife with none of the advantages ... she new how to  
scowl but didn't offer sex.   Within a year or two those polished  
aluminum 747s had captured all the overnight business that the B&O  
had and the train was no longer in the schedule.

On Jan 22, 2008, at 2:17 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

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