[PRCo] Re: For Our Midwestern Natives and Transplants

[Richard Allman]

the one I was familiar with was the Boston accent, which had its  roots but 
in cadence and pronunciation in the English and later, Irish influences. 
Allegedly there a few things that identify one as being from 
Philadelphia-one is always least cognizant of his/her accent. In 
Philadelphia, people walk on the pavement(elsewhere on the sidewalk) and 
people are from an intersection, whereas elsewhere they're from a street!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:34 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: For Our Midwestern Natives and Transplants


> There was a time when a good linguist could identify where you came
> from right down to the neighborhood as soon as you opened your
> mouth.   Using television to raise us made Americans rather
> homogenized.   The accents today are not what part of the USA you
> come from but what country you emigrated to the USA from or are
> vacationing here from.   I find it challenging to identify the people
> from Russia or Yugoslavia or the Czech Republic or Germany or Poland
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Richard Allman wrote:
>
>> 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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