[PRCo] Re: Beyond South Hills Junction

[BobDietrich]

Maybe not so far fetched Fred - those large sewerage pipes in the last
couple pictures go to a big room under the back yard.  When they make us
hook up to city sewer I'll be able to run through that pipe and have a
layout out there.  I'll let you know when you can come and help clean out
the room.  :-)

Jerry:  you are welcome anytime you want to get away from the southern
exposure.

Bob  



-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 11:21 AM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Beyond South Hills Junction

It occurs to me, Bob, that you have either (1) too much time in retirement
to build models or (2) you have run out of space in thy basement. 

I think I could direct you to house up near the turnpike interchange north
of Manheim where a man had a novel solution to that age old problem that
"collections expand to fill the space allocated for their retention and
never stop expanding after they fill the space."  He simply expanded the
basement.   He built a three story three or four car garage about a 50 feet
away from the house and then tunneled out a long wide passage between the
two.    When you are in the basement under the house, you see his collection
of Lionel trains ... O, O27 and even some OO from the 1930s.   Then you walk
into the subway to the grarage and now you are into the restaurant and bar
collection ... when he has company, the bar is active.   And you walk beyond
the bar, and suddenly you find yourself in the basement of the garage ... in
a model of a drive-in theater filled with his collection of antique /
classic cars and in them he keeps his mannequin collection.   Must be nice
to have money.

Now that I have planted the seed ... I expect to come back in a few years
and see the interurban going through South Hills Tunnel into a second
basement under that big front yard where we find a model of Castle Shannon
and the coal mine at Washington Junction......


Heee Heee


On Apr 2, 2010, at 10:14 AM, Bill Robb wrote:

> Very nice work,  Bob.   Your modules certainly remind me of Pittsburgh.
> Bill
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> Hi everyone.
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> I could say the purpose of this e-mail is to verify my address book and it
> will perform that as a secondary task.  The real purpose is to show you
what
> I've done in my basement.   If you've been here you know the layout room
was
> a hodge-podge of modules going in all directions.  It was messy!  I've
spent
> a few months revising things and I think it is a much improved
organization.
> At least it will be better for me when I haul out the Junction because the
> large resident pieces are now stationary with only one East Penn
interface.
> If you want to take a look
http://www.dietrichsfam.com/shj/Beyond%20SHJ.htm.
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> Bob 
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