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

[Phillip Clark Campbell]

> ----- 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!
>
> 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.'
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From: scillystuff <wiki at scillystuff.co.uk>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Sat, October 17, 2009 1:36:27 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: UK - not Hawaii or Alaska!
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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Greetings;

A partial answer might literally be right next door to you.  The
Light Railway Transport League published a 3-part article about
Prc Jan-Mar-1967.  This was assembled into a 5X8 booklet
which is now distributed by PTM.  It deals with history, routes, and 
roster of course.  The author hails from the UK,  Mr.Tom Parkinson.
He is a member of this list.

Mr.Lybarger of PTM can put you in touch with the bookstore;  maps,
booklets, even the first of a promised 3-volume set dealing with Prc
is for sale.  Volume-2 has been promised for several years.

Railfans are noted for purposely doing the unusual aren't they.
http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/PRCX660366X1652XGOTHAMXCITYXBATCAVEX9thXStXSXofXPennXAvX660320XUNK.jpg
You may have to copy and paste the above url.

Photos are here:
http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/
Archives are here:
http://lists.dementia.org/mlist/pittsburgh-railways/
These are a real character study in addition to the railway aren't they.


 Phil
Without a  'coast'  but not a  'cause.'