[PRCo] Re: Reminescent of Pittsburgh

[Fred Schneider]

Thanks, Bill, for posting.   I know it isn't Pittsburgh but then you  
know I'm always in favor of learning something new.

I wanted to see those Silesian interurban lines and they were on my  
list of things to do but I only had time for Warsaw, Krakow and  
Poznan when I made my only trip to Poland.   Seeing the interurbans  
would have required me to have had to avoided things like the rebuilt  
Jewish quarter in Warsaw and Auschwitz and the beautiful old city of  
Krakow from which the last Pope came.  I have to tell you that the  
tour of KZ Auschwitz was the most memorable of all the concentration  
camps I've seen because one of the people on the tour politely told  
the guide she was in beyond her depth.   When she asked why he had  
any right to challenge her credentials, his response was, "I was  
imprisoned here.  I am bringing my son back to show him where I lived  
until the U. S. troops liberated the camp in 1945."   The guide  
vanished into the woodwork and this wonderful old man from northern  
New Jersey concluded the tour.   Had I ridden the interurbans, I  
think that man would have still left the stronger impression.

On Jun 2, 2008, at 5:44 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

> This is a page I stumbled upon while searching for a defintion of  
> interurban. It's a system in Poland near the border with Russia and  
> Germany. You'll see red and cream cars, blast furnances, passing  
> sidings in streets, private right of way operation and as the page  
> says "the chronic lack of funds is visible on every step" Only  
> urgent repairs are being made to rolling stock and infrastructure.  
> But still there are relatively modern cars on wide headways like  
> Pittsburgh. Popular with the railfans too.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silesian_Interurbans
> http://www.p.lodz.pl/I35/personal/jw37/urbtr/sl-dabr-inurb.html
> Bill Robb
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