[PRCo] Re: For Our Midwestern Natives and Transplants

[Schneider Fred]

Probably not nearly as bad as my friend Bruce Bente and I confined in  
an automobile for a six week-long tour of light lines.     We've done  
that multiple times but six weeks was the longest.   Going to Phoenix  
in March.

John Bowman used to talk about going to ride the Colorado and  
Southern narrow gauge from Denver to Leadville with Bill Moedinger.    
Sat up all night to Denver, got in just time to catch the narrow  
gauge about 8 a.m. to continue to journey westward at something like  
20 miles per hour to Como and Leadville.   That, to me, sounds like  
real torture.   I rode the Silverton once ... one way only.   I  
managed to find someone to trade my return tickets to in exchange for  
bus tickets so I could back two hours earlier and enjoy the motel  
swimming pool.

On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:

>   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.
>>
>> Confined with you for two days in a streetcar ?? That would fall  
>> under the
> heading of "cruel and unusual punishment".
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> On America's North Coast
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