[PRCo] Re: For Our Midwestern Natives and Transplants

[Richard Allman]

Fred-since you started this thread:
to ride the Liberty Bell cars that I saw but missed riding;
to ride by trolley Philadelphia to Harrisburg-both routes-PST to West 
Chester, then West Chester St. Rwy to Coatesville, then Conestoga to 
Lancaster and then to Elizabethtown, then Hershey Transit to Hummelstown, 
then Harrisburg Railways to Harrisburg.
OR LVT to Allentown then A&R to Reading, then RP&L to Lebanon and then 
Hershey Transit..
Come to think of it, couple other choices as well-Reading to Adamstown, then 
via Conestoga..., and maybe P&W to Norristown and RP&L routes to 
Reading...man, we had a lot here!

Another one I'd like-my grandfather's trip from Boston to New York by 
trolley around 1906. I'd like to join him for at least the fast leg via 
Boston and Worcester(or as the locals called it Wustah!)
And of course, the things you cited
Which brings up another sad thing lost-regional accents-TV and hypermobility 
of our population.

RICH


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:05 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: For Our Midwestern Natives and Transplants


> There was a man named Herman Rinke in the ERA office in New York who
> used to be infuriating.   Everything you wanted to mention, he had
> been there and done that and ridden that and seen that.
>
> Now it's my turn to be a S. O. B.   Been there.  Done that.  Rode the
> Electroliner.   Also rode a Libertyliner.
>
> But to be honest, there is always something we wished we could have
> ridden that got away.   I I wished I could have ridden a wooden
> interurban on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern.   And, as
> Jim Shuman used to say, just one more time to chase the setting sun
> on the Cincinnati and Lake Erie in a Red Devil ... it was gone two
> years before I was hatched.   And I would have loved to ride a
> Butterfly 1200 from Los Angeles to San Bernardino or the Sacramento
> Northern to Chico or the Texas Electric all the way from Waco to
> Dallas and Denison (170 miles).   And how could we exclude the circle
> tour from St. Louis to Danville to Champaign to Springfield and back
> to St. Louis on the Illinois Terminal.   Or Milwaukee to Sheboygan
> and to Watertown and then to Kenosha on TM and back to Milwaukee on
> the North Shore.   And I have friends who did all of that and more.
> And how about Ohio's Scioto Valley Traction ... a third rail line
> through the farm fields.   And would it not be nice to go to
> Cleveland, pick up Herb, get on the Cleveland, Southwestern and
> Columbus car and then change to the Columbus Delaware and Marion, and
> then the C&LE to Springfield and Toledo, and go back home on the Lake
> Shore Electric.   Might take two days, Herb, to get you back home.
>
> I've actually ridden a third of the way to Sherman, Texas on DART and
> who would have believed it in 1948 when TE was torn up.   The head-on
> collision way out in the corn fields far north of Dallas that was the
> final straw and which ended Texas Electric was well within today's
> DART suburban territory.
>
> I guess I should just count myself lucky that I've seen and enjoyed
> all that I have.
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Ken and Tracie wrote:
>>
>>> Forty five years since the end. One is a last night photo.
>>
>> Wow, I'd forgotten that entirely. Someday I will make IRM and ride an
>> Electroliner. The Liberty Liner never moved while I was around, sadly.
>>
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