[PRCo] Re: (no subject)

[Fred Schneider]

Phil and Barry:

Oh how I remember that evening paper.   I was eight years old.   My father passed it across the dinner table to me.   

And now I occasionally have to run 1723 at Arden and it kills me to admit that it is an antique because that makes me one too.   

Went through the Windy City at the height of the morning rush hour today.   Saw several long trains on the South Shore in Gary from the toll road; perhaps a half a dozen or more trains on the Dan Ryan while stuck in traffic and a flock of Metra push pulls on the old Northwestern line from the Kennedy Expressway.   That highway was so slow they were calling for a one-hour drive from downtown to O'Hare.   It was similar to coming out of Washington DC in a snow storm!   I guess I am sadist.    Left the hotel in Kendellville, Indiana at 6:30 a.m. (that's on the Lincoln Highway south of Gary) and finally got to the Kalmbach Publishing offices in west suburban Milwaukee by almost 11 a.m.   Ya know ... I think that it would not have been any slower using a PRR Valpo local, the North Shore and Speedrail.   (Ken will tell me.)   

I've forgotten the North Shore running time ....maybe two hours or just a little more end to end for about 92 miles ... including the elevated and the street running in Milwaukee.    I can remember that one didn't hang one's head out the window for protracted periods of time at this time of the year because it was very uncomfortable using your face for a bug swatter.    I recall looking through the glass into the cab of an Electroliner and watching that speedometer simply pegged at 80 for mile after mile.   


Minneapolis tomorrow.   Time to put the laptop away and crash.   

fws



On May 25, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:

> 	* To: "'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> 	* Subject: [PRCo] Pittsburgh spends $2.8M on new streamliners
> 	* From: "Barry, Matthew R" <mrb190 at pitt.edu>
> 	* Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 15:23:05 -0400
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> December 7, 1948 includes large photograph:
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2fYaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f00EAAAAIBAJ&dq=streetcars&pg=5107%2C6060953
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> Mr.Barry;
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> Mr.Schneider indicated the URL above does not reflect the article;
> this URL takes you to the front page of the issue:
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=djft3U1LymYC&dat=19481207&printsec=frontpage
> In the upper right insert page 27.  The article is almost 2-complete
> pages (27 & 28) with 3-photos and several ads from St.Louis Car,
> Westinghouse and US-Steel.
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> Phil
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