[PRCo] Re: Ancient and Not-So-Ancient

[Schneider Fred]

That explains why John didn't mind the U. S. Marine Corps boot camp.   
Preferred way was a one mile walk....  Right.

Well, John, as a teenager, when I missed the Lititz bus home, many  
times I would walk home from Lancaster rather than wait a hour for  
the next one.   It was only three miles.   I could be home before I  
could if I waited for the bus.   I also took a lot of pictures on the  
Pennsylvania Railroad in this area by walking ... did the Atglen and  
Susquehanna Branch from Columbia to Smithville (18 miles) on July 3,  
1957.  (I know the date well because I forgot it was my father's 50th  
birthday.)   I did the other 18 miles from Atglen to Smithville the  
week before.    I did Pittsburgh Railways (87, 56, 94, 35, 36, Shaker  
Heights, CTA's Lake Street right-of-way, part of the North Shore  
around Waukegan, a lot of PST's Sharon Hill line, the swamps down by  
Eastwick, University-Clayton in St. Louis and a lot of other nice  
places by shoe leather express too.   So, after pulling your chain, I  
need to admit I didn't mind the "walks" in army basic training either.

Trouble was, we could eat three square meals a day and a lot of  
snacks too when we did that.   It didn't hurt to wolf down 120  
calories in a Coke.   When we get in the car to go to a restaurant  
and then drive back home, we just can't enjoy as much food.

On Jan 2, 2009, at 4:11 PM, John Swindler wrote:

>
>
> That brings back memories.  I also took a summer class at Buhl  
> Planetarium for couple summers around 1960.  Rode the 64 into  
> Oakland and transferred to the 77/54.  Later, when parents moved to  
> Mt. Lebanon, the easiest way to Point Park College was to ride the  
> 41A from Sunset Hills via Pioneer Ave.  The preferred way, though,  
> was a one mile walk east to Linden Grove or a one mile walk west to  
> either Clearview or Dormont Jct.
>
> Small world
>
> John
>
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Ancient and Not-So-Ancient> Date: Fri, 2 Jan  
>> 2009 15:00:30 -0500> From: George.Gray at gta.ga.gov> To: pittsburgh- 
>> railways at dementia.org> > I rode the streetcar with my mother in  
>> the mid-1950s, but I it was> always PCC cars.> > Regular riding on  
>> my own started in 1958 when I took summer classes at> Buhl  
>> Planetarium. That just involved a transfer from the 38 or 39 to  
>> the> 22 Crosstown. I never ventured deeper into the North Side. >  
>> > After taking the streetcar to high school, I used it to go to  
>> Pitt until> all of the lines (39 and the Fifth Avenue routes 71,  
>> 73, 75, and 76)> were converted to bus in 1966-67. The reshuffling  
>> of the bus routes> when the 39 went away led to me meeting my  
>> future first wife on the 41A> Dormont-Sunset bus after it was  
>> routed along Pioneer Avenue in> Brookline. > > -----Original  
>> Message-----> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org>  
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf  
>> Of> Schneider Fred> Sen!
>  t: Friday, January 02, 2009 12:36 PM> To: pittsburgh- 
> railways at dementia.org> Cc: Siebert Chick> Subject: [PRCo] Re:  
> Models> > 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.> >> > -----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> >> >>> On Wed,  
> 31 Dec 2008, Gray, George wrote:> >> >>>> >>> I wouldn't have known  
> there was an earthquake in Lancaster> >>> otherwise.> >>> >>> >>  
> Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org> wrote:> >>> >>> >> Ah,  
> see, I have Zephyr, Twitter and email for that.> >>> >>> > 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.> >> > What line did you ride to South Hills High? 
> > >> >> > Phil> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
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