[PRCo] Re: Pennsylvania RR Heritage Passenger Train

Sun May 8 19:57:11 EDT 2011

   Fred   And I'll bet you did not ride in PRR 120 on this trip either.   
But I have ridden it through my home town!  On the back platform,= no less.
That mission was somewhat more pleasurable than the one you cite.=   Dwight

May 8, 2011 03:41:20 PM, pittsburgh-railways at dementi= a.org wrote:
Back on Octob= er 8th, 1958, I entered the army. The local recruiter (yes,
guys, RA stood = for ragged ass) gave me a ticket to Harrisburg on the
Pennsy. My parents we= re on the station platform in Lancaster to say
good-bye. And dad had one la= st picture of the train disappearing west with
one of those Pennsy business= cars on the rear end of number 25. 

That was one hellish long day. = Hours of processing and finally a bus to
Philadelphia and another bus to Fo= rt Dix. And then standing in formation
for an hour. Finally some a-hole ser= geant comes out of a building and
says,"Oh, you guys still here. Well mayb= e we do something." And he sent us
to dinner at 11 PM for what was left ove= r in the reception center. Then to
bed at 1 AM. Then they woke us up again = at 4 a.m. to tell us we were in
thearmy now. 

Thanks Bob, for the m= emories.

On May 8, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Bob Rathke wrote:

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>Yesterday we took our grandson to National Train Day at Chicag= o's Union
Station. More than 30 pieces of passenger car equipment was open = for
inspection on five tracks; there were displays and demonstrations in th= e
Great Hall, and also short excursions on an Amtrak Superliner which ran t=
hrough the Amtrak maintenance building on the return trip to Union Station.=

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>Attached are some low- res photos. Y e= s, the station and trains were that
crowded. The hits of the event were the= PRR passeng er train and the
Milwaukee Road Hiawatha train. 
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>The attached photos show the two PRR E8 locomotives, = 10-6 sleeper Little
Juniata Rapids, lounge Warrior Ridge (1157), and observ= ation car 120. The
photo of the PRR K4 glass etching is in a room divider i= n one of the cars.
The 20-page Train Day catalog says that this train is ba= sed in central
Pennsylvania, but isn't specific about the city. 
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>Opposit e the platform from the PRR train is the A= mtrak Superliner used
for the excursions. 
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&g= t; It was a day well spent. I'd be interested in hearing about the PRR
trai= n's stop in Pittsburgh. 
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>Bob 
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>-----= Original Message ----- 
>From: "Herb Brannon" >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
>Sent: Saturday, May 7,= 2011 5:30:42 PM 
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: [FYI Only] Pennsylvania RR He= ritage Passenger Train 
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>I think, but not sure, they may ke= ep this train in or near Altoona, PA. 
>Anyone know for sure? 
&g= t; Here is the current information coming across the wire on the return
tri= p 
>for this train: 
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>*Original info has it leaving = Chicago approx. 8:00am Sunday. Latest info
has 
>it arriving in Pitt= sburgh approx. 7:30pm Sunday evening. It was
travelling
>at Amtrak = speeds or better on its outgoing trip, and there's no reason to

>be= lieve it won't be doing so on the return. 
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>* 
>On S= at, May 7, 2011 at 18:18, Ken and Tracie wrote:= 
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>>That train looks like the one we rode in December, 1= 967. Except this one
is 
>>a lot cleaner, shiny and several cars = shorter. 
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>>Thanks for sharing. 
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&gt= ;> K. 
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>>----- Original Message ----= - 
>>From: "Herb Brannon" 
>>To: 
>>Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2011 2:= 43 PM 
>>Subject: [PRCo] [FYI Only] Pennsylvania RR Heritage Pass= enger Train 
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>>>A renovated Pennsylv= ania Railroad passenger train is in Chicago today
for 
>>>Nati= onal Train Day. It will be leaving Chicago tomorrow and will be 
>&gt= ;> stopping 
>>>at the Pennsylvania (Amtrak) Station in dow= ntown Pittsburgh sometime 
>>>tomorrow. If anyone in the Pitts= burgh area is interested in looking at 
>>it. 
>>>Th= e attached photo was taken when it passed through Cleveland (passing 
&g= t;>> Cleveland Browns Stadium) on its way to Chicago. I will try to p=
ost the 
>>>approximate time the train will arrive in Pittsbur= gh when said times
are
>>>posted on the Cleveland/Pittsburgh = rail list. 
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>>>-- 
>>>Herb Brann= on 
>>>In Cuyahoga Valley National Park 
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