[PRCo] Re: Models

[Schneider Fred]

God I'm feeling old.  He was going to being forced to ride 39 to high  
school and I was out of the army, married and in college.     Sorry  
'bout that sonny.   It was a lifetime for both of us.
Difference is I can remember riding yellow cars on Perrysville  
Avenue .... low speed ones in World War II and 5500s in the early  
1950s.   I can also remember one hell of a fast ride on a 3750 coming  
in from Castle Shannon in 1952.   Yes, I also remember the double-end  
low floor cars in Donora, Washington, on the Evergreen line, on the  
Castle Shannon-Mount Lebanon shuttle and on Laketon Road.

No, I cannot remember conductors or MU cars but I'm told that Chick  
Siebert (who still lives in Camp Hill) claims to have ridden an M. U.  
train of low-floor cars in East Liberty.  Chick is also the last  
person I know who rode the Harmony interurbans.  He has to be the  
last link with the ice age.

On Jan 2, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Gray, George wrote:

> I lived in a part of Brookline where it was about the same length (7
> minute) walk to the 38 Mt. Lebanon or 39 Brookline.  I mostly took the
> 38 because it was quieter (some homework was often finished if I got a
> seat) until the repaving of West Liberty Avenue killed the 38.  Then I
> always took the 39.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> Phillip Clark Campbell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:16 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Models
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>>> On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Gray, George wrote:
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>>> I wouldn't have known there was an earthquake in Lancaster
>>> otherwise.
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>> Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:
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>> Ah, see, I have Zephyr, Twitter and email for that.
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> It is hardly earth shaking news is it (pun intended.)
> We can't keep up with all 'local' news can we.
> Earthquakes not unheard of in the east;  in fact worst in
> U.S.A. was in Missouri and that is in the archives here.
> The MO fault apparently moves up past Chicago,
> into Canada, and heads back toward/into the U.S.A.
> somewhere over/thru the Great Lakes and maybe into
> NY and/or PA (I am not really interested in the exact
> geography of this fault.)  The Lancaster quake could have
> been in our local paper but I don't read it every day.
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> What line did you ride to South Hills High?
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