[PRCo] Re: Member Mark McGuiire FYI

Mon Jan 28 13:52:30 EST 2008

  Thanks for your concern Jerry. It's not necessary to send a sympathy card, however. Just your thoughts and prayers will do just fine. It is very hard to lose someone who is so young, but as the saying states, "life goes on". 
  I am back in Florida now and have had my fill of winter for the year. I don't know how those people in the Chicago area do it year after year. I went through subzero temperatures and snow during my stay and that was enough for me. Any thoughts I had about relocating up north are now officially gone. Last Wednesday evening the temperature outside my brother-in-law's home read -9 degrees. With the wind chill it was even worse. During the daylight hours Friday the temps rose to 32 degrees and I said to my brother-in-law, " I never thought I'd see the day when I said that 32 degrees feels balmy". Now I am back in Florida and it feels wonderful!

                      Mark

-- "Jerry "Matt" Matsick" <mtoytrain at bellsouth.net> wrote:
Earlier I posted this information but have not seen it show up.
Our good buddy Mark's sister passed away yesterday in Chicago, age 49,  Mark and his Jacksonville sister flew up to Chicago yesterday.  It would be a nice gesture if members of the group would
send a "sympathy card" to Mark.   Keep Mark and his family in your prayers!
Mark McGuire
5329 Stanford Road
Jacksonville, Florida 32207-7855

Thanks
Jerry Matsick
>From the River City by the Sea! 
Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
"Jacksonville" 

-------------- Original message from "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>: -------------- 

> This morning, I posted a photo of 1799 descending the ramp into West Liberty 
> Avenue. 
> 
> K. 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" 
> To: 
> Cc: "Fred Schneider" 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:59 PM 
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Route 39 Brookline 
> 
> 
> > The equipment at Keating was shifted to south Hills after closure wasn't 
> > it. There are many photos of the North Side GE equipment in service in 
> > South Hills aren't there and I think there are some in the archives of 
> > this list. Didn't I read somewhere that interurban motormen didn't like 
> > these cars because it felt like the brake was floored when the power was 
> > released? 
> > Phil 
> > 
> > Where is this photo of 1795-39-Brookline model? 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ---- 
> > From: Fred Schneider 
> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
> > Cc: Fred Schneider 
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 7:45:28 AM 
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Route 39 Brookline 
> > 
> > 
> > By the way, the photos of the model of 1795 with 39 BROOKLINE 
> > destination sign probably would have never happened in the real 
> > world. The 1790s were assigned to Keating car house and were 
> > retired after Keating closed. Tunnel was a Westinghouse barn. 
> > 
> > On Jan 23, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Gray, George wrote: 
> > 
> >> On 6-4-2001 John Swindler posted the following in this group: 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> For Jim's benefit, also looked up A-13958 of 1925 which provides for 
> >>> extension of the West Liberty and Suburban Street Railway route in 
> >>> City 
> >> of 
> >>> Pittsburgh and Overbrook Boro. It didn't apply to 35/36/37, as 
> >> suspected, 
> >>> but to route 39-Brookline. 
> >> 
> >>> Under this application, PUC approved: extension of the West 
> >>> Liberty and 
> >> 
> >>> Suburban Sreet Railway Co. over private of way, beginning at point 
> > on 
> >> curve 
> >>> west of Birchwood Ave., then east 313 feet to city line, along 
> >>> proposed 
> >> 
> >>> extension of Brookline Blvd., then east another 333 feet in 
> > Overbrook 
> >> Boro 
> >>> to a loop. Purpose, according to testimony, was to service land 
> >>> owned 
> >> by 
> >>> West Liberty Improvement Co., suited for residence purposes, and 
> >> provide a 
> >>> loop (for 39-Brookline cars). Total round trip distance listed as 
> >> 2,000 ft. 
> >> 
> >>> So the 39 Brookline loop was not original, but later add-on. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> The extensive website on the Brookline community 
> >> (http://www.spdconline.org/history/Trolleys/Trolleys.html) gives the 
> >> following chronology. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 1905 - single track trolley line through Brookline. Service went from 
> >> the Brookline Junction (West Liberty Avenue) down the length of 
> >> Brookline Boulevard, extending down through the wooded valley to 
> >> Fairhaven, near the old Overbrook School at Saw Mill Run. This 
> >> connected 
> >> to the old Charleroi rail line that ran along Saw Mill Run. (The 
> >> tunnel 
> >> near Overbrook School at the far eastern edge of Brookline was 
> >> built for 
> >> that first trolley line, and the brackets for the power lines are 
> >> still 
> >> there, over 100 years later!) 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 1906 - the line was terminated at Edgebrook Ave. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 1909 - work began on a double-track line that ran from the junction 
> > at 
> >> West Liberty Avenue past Edgebrook and Breining Street. It 
> >> terminated at 
> >> a trolley loop near Witt Street on the eastern end of Brookline 
> >> Boulevard. 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> So, does anyone know what the 1925 PUC application was about? 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> George Gray 
> >> 
> >> Georgia Technology Authority 
> >> 
> >> 47 Trinity Avenue 1st Floor 
> >> 
> >> Atlanta, GA 30334 
> >> 
> >> 404-656-7327 
> >> 
> >> 
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