[PRCo] Re: UK - not Hawaii or Alaska!

[scillystuff]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phillip Clark Campbell" <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:27 PM
Subject: [PRCo] UK - not Hawaii or Alaska!

> ________________________________
> From: scillystuff <wiki at scillystuff.co.uk>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Fri, October 16, 2009 6:17:36 PM
> Subject: Re: Pittsburgh Railways Interurban
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>
> I should have looked at your email address before posing
> questions;  seems you are on the other side of the
> 'other' pond!
>
>
> Phil
> Without a  'coast'  but not a  'cause.'

Hi Phil,

I was in Pittsburgh in 2004 for a conference and rode the light rail down to 
South Hills Village. I did some web searches before visiting and was sad 
that I had missed the PCC cars to Drake and disappointed that I couldn't 
make it to the trolley museum. I was in touch with them but couldn't get 
there by public transport! I became involved with Wikipedia and Pittsburgh 
when I released some of the photos I had taken whilst there under a Creative 
Commons license so they could be used in Wikipedia articles. Every time I 
searched for information on PRCo your mailing list came up, so here I am. 
Your railway system has been such a wonderful mix of skullduggery, 
improvisation, triumph and disaster that researching the history has been 
like reading a best seller, impossible to put down.

I'm trying to keep to the Wikipedia principal of no original research, so 
I'm only adding information that can be sourced from one or more independent 
references. I thought I was doing well with route names and dates of 
operation until I discovered that one prolific photographer posed chartered 
streetcars with old route destination blinds at randon points of the 
network. Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Can you recomend a reference work? As someone pointed out in the thread, the 
PRCo wikipedia article is very short on details and most web articles assume 
the reader knows how the story began.

Thanks for your welcome and I'll try not to step on anyones toes.
-- 
Paul 


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