[PRCo] Re: never shoulda gotten rid of P&W Strafford line...

[richard allman]

thanks, Ed-surgery tomorrow, then the rehab...RICH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 9:48 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: never shoulda gotten rid of P&W Strafford line...


> Hi, Rich,
>
> Sorry to hear about your oops and hope that things are improving
> satisfactorily.  We were in California when the initial messages came
> through and there wasn't very regular email reading while we were there.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of 
> richard
> allman
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 1:42 PM
> To: James A. Wert; Jim Rivers; Akftrain at aol.com; Charles Long; Charlie -
> Norwood Light; ptc-11 at comcast.net; Jack May; Bruce Bente;
> bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net; fwschneider at comcast.net; pstc86 at aol.com; ED
> LYBARGER; pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] never shoulda gotten rid of P&W Strafford line...
>
> since I am on vacation this week,after breaking it up for 1/2 day for 
> urgent
> hospital mtg., thought yesterday great day for walk, and my favorite trail
> is the Radnor Township trail, the long -abandoned P&W line-a nice 5 mile
> round trip, and several station abutments still readilly seen. walked from
> parking @ milepost 1.8 to the start of the trail. On way back, between
> Sugartown Road and South Devon Rd.(check out Ron DeGraw's superb history
> "Pig and Whistle"), suddenly stumbled ,looked in the air and saw my feet,
> shattered my sunglasses, tore my face open in multiple spots on the 
> paving,
> and most importantly fractured my right shoulder in multiple places and 
> will
> require reconstruction of it next Wednesday @ my hospital. After the fall,
> walked back to car, covered w/ blood(scaring lots of kids along the way) 
> and
> drove to Bryn Mawr Hospital ER where friend in high places Rich Crooks 
> shift
> chief of security and more importantly, immediate past president of East
> Penn Traction Cl!
> ub waited w/ Suz and me while I waited for evaluation, x-rays, and CAT
> scan. Rich C. showed that for all our quirkiness and arguing about trolley
> stuff, push comes to shove(or fall), East Penn is good family! If the
> troleys were still running, never woulda happened-too bad no one rode
> them...RICH
>
>