[PRCo] Re: PTM Comcast video

[Fred Schneider]

Yeah.   Right.   You figured it out.   Thanks Dennis even if the link was wrong.   You brought back my youth to me.

We took family vacations in the south from 1954 to 1958.   To that, one had to cross the N&W.   I have pictures of trains on that railroad every year but 1954.  In 1958, however, all I have is a borrowed RF&P E8 on a passenger train at Kenova WVa and a brace Geeps on a coal train at Lynchburg.   The steam was almost gone.   I was told if we waited another hour I could see an A but dad wanted to get home.

But I did see my share of Y6s, As, Js, K2s.   I even photographed a J at night with open multiple flash in the station at Norfolk.   By 1959 steam was virtually dead ... you found it in stuffed and mounted in city parks.   I did see a row of dead engines in the Moscow, Camden and San Augustine yards in east Texas, the Gainesville Midland, a Burlington engine borrowed by the Rock Island in Fort Worth, and the Dallas Union Terminal O-6-0 but the picking were pretty thin.   And then I got Great Britain and I thought I had died and gone to heaven?   Diesels, what's a diesel.   That had taken delivery of their last steam engine just the year before I got there.   

Thanks Dennis for that glorious mistake.



On Aug 30, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> This a piece on a steam locomotive on N&W. 
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> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Dennis F
> Cramer
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 7:42 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] PTM Comcast video
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzxTf3IHYL8
> This is the promotional video Comcast did for the Pennsylvania Trolley
> Museum this summer.
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>          Dennis F. Cramer
> http://home.windstream.net/dfc1
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