[PRCo] Re: Troop trains

[Dwight Long]

   Fred   When I took the Dog to Rolla, the doghouse was not downtown.  I h=
ad to take a cab from it to my hotel, which WAS right downtown.    Of course
it is possible that a more local run might have gone downtow= n.  The bus I
was on was destined to somewhere else--can't remember wh= ere.  But I do
remember that taxi ride.  That was not necessary w= hen using the Frisco,
andat this late date I do not know why the hell I di= d not do so both ways.
At least I got to ride it one way.   Dwight

May 10, 2011 03:00:37 PM, pittsburgh-railways at dement= ia.org wrote:
On my last tr= ip east from Texas, the army of course paid me. Another guy
inthe barracks= , who was also being transferred to Europe at the same time,
decided to try= hitching rides with me and pocketing the money. Of course
twoguys don't g= et picked up as fast as one.

He finally gave up waiting in dispair a= t Rolla and walked into town to
catch a Greyhound. 

Later that day I= was standing on a street in St. Louis when his bus rolled
into town. I saw= it. I saw him looking out the window. We waved. 


On May 10, 201= 1, at 12:16 AM, Bob Rathke wrote:

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>I remember stopping = at the Post House in Rolla (RAWL-Luh) on a
cross-country Greyhound trip in = 1962. 
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>Bob 
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>Fro= m: "Herb Brannon" 
>To: pittsburgh-railways at demen= tia.org 
>Sent: Monday, May 9, 2011 9:46:25 PM 
>Subject: [PR= Co] Re: Troop trains 
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>I haven't heard that towns name ment= ioned in quite a few years. 1957 was 
>almost a decade before my tim= e there but I doubt if it changed very much.

>On Mon, May 9, 2011 a= t 21:02, Dwight Long wrote: 
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>>H= erb Back in 1957 I was returning east from Rolla, Mo., on the 
>>= Frisco's loc=3D al passenger train, and we went into the hole at least
once= , 
>>and I think tw=3D ice, for a very long troop train. I learne= d later that
it 
>>was headed =3D to Ft. Leonard Wood. Dwight >>
>>May 9, 2011 05:29:17 PM, pittsburgh-railways at dementi= =3D a.org wrote: 
>>In the Summer=3D of 1964 I had a "seasonal" j= ob with the City of Akron, 
>>Street 
>>&Hig=3D hwa= y Dept, as a laborer on a McAdam paving crew. We had a three
day 
>&g= t; job,=3D in mid-August, on a city street which ran along side the
main>>east-westrailroad tracks. These tracks served the Eire-Lackawann= a, 
>>Baltimore 
>>&=3D Ohio 
>>and the P= ennsylvania railroads. Every day we worked on that street =3D
wesaw 
&g= t;> troop train after troop train headed westbound. All the trains
us=3D=ed the 
>>1930s Pullman cars you speak about. Just a few months = later in Ap=3D
ril,
>>1965 
>>I 
>>departed,= like your brother, on a TWA flight headed for BCT =3D and AIT,
as a 
&g= t;> Combat Engineer, at Ft Leonard Wood, MO. 
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>>On=3D Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:52, Bob Rathke wrote:= 
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>>>A couple of follow-ups, Fred: 
>&g= t;> 
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>>>=3D - In March, 1= 963 I took my brother to Greater Pittsburgh Airport
where 
>>he&g= t;boarded a TWA Constellation for his induction in the Army at Ft.
Kn=3D ox= . 
>>>Attached is a photo of my brother about to enter the doo= r, look=3D ing
back 
>>>toward the camera. 
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>>>By 1964=3D -67, the Defens= e Department was sending a greater number of 
>>>Pittsbu=3D rg= h inductees to basic training on trains from the PRR and
P&LE 
>&= gt;> =3D stations. I took photos of the 1930's Pullman cars kept in
thos=e 
>>stations>for use on the inductee trains. 
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>>>- L=3D ast Fall, my unc= le told me about his rail trip to basic training
in 
>>1942> (= previously, he had never talked about his WWII experiences). His 
>&g= t; dad=3D 
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>>>accompanied him to the P&LE sta= tion that day where he boarded =3D a B&O

>>train 
>&gt= ; to 
>>>Washington, D.C., and then on to an Army base in=3D t= he South. Hhe said
his 
>>>parents (my grandparents) didn't kn= ow that=3D he enlisted in the Army -
they 
>>>always thought t= hat he had been dra=3D fted. 
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>>>Last Fall he talked freely about his =3D experiences = in the U.S. and
Pacific 
>>>1942-45, and I furiously took n=3D= otes on everything he said. 
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>>>Bob 
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>&g= t;> 
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>= >>----- Original Message ----- 
>>&=3D gt; From: "Fred= Schneider" 
>>>To: pittsburgh=3D -railways at dementia.org 
&= gt;>> Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2011 10:40:38 AM 
>>>=3D ; Su= bject: [PRCo] Re: Pennsylvania RR Heritage Passenger Train 
>>>= 
>>&=3D gt; Back on October 8th, 1958, I entered the army. T= he local
recruiter 
>>(yes=3D , 
>>>guys, RA stood f= or ragged ass) gave me a ticket to Harrisburg on =3D
the
>>Penns= y. 
>>>My parents were on the station platform in Lancaster to= =3D say
good-bye.
>>>And dad had one last picture of the trai= n disappeari=3D ng west with
oneof 
>>>those Pennsy business = cars on the rear end of n=3D umber 25. 
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>>>Th= at was one hellish long day. Hours of processin=3D g and finally a
busto >>>Philadelphia and another bus to Fort Dix. An=3D d then stan= ding
information 
>>for 
>>>an hour. Finally some a= -hole serge=3D ant comes out of a building and
says, 
>>>"Oh, = you guys still here. Wel=3D l maybe we do something." And he sent
us to >>>dinner at 11 PM for wha=3D t was left over in the reception c=
enter. Then to 
>>>bed at 1 AM. Then =3D they woke us up again= at 4 a.m. to tell us we were
in 
>>>the army now.=3D 
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>>>Thanks Bob, for the memories. 
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>>>>-- 
>>Herb Brannon 
>>In Cuyah=3D oga Valley = National Park 
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>Herb Brannon 
&g= t; In Cuyahoga Valley National Park 
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