[PRCo] How far off TRACK can we get????

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> That was one of the points I was making.   Remember the story we did in
> Headlights on Jim Shuman's week-long vacation in Indiana in the 1938.   He
> had to take a week off without pay and the total cost of the trip was about
> a third of his annual wages in an umbrella factory to ride the Pennsy to
> Indianapolis, take the fantrip on the Indiana Railroad, ride the NYC over
> to Peoria, look at the Iillinois Terminal and return home.
>
> The 1939-1940 "See Both Worlds Fairs for $100" bargain coach ticket on all
> the US railroads, if adjusted to inflation would be about $1,657 today and
> if you wanted a berth to sleep in, that would be extra.   The dining cars
> were extra.  Hotels were extra.   Makes you realize how cheap air fares are
> today, doesn't it?   I knew a number of people who availed themselves of
> that bargain.   John Bowman and Leon Franks went from Lancaster to
> Washington, then the Southern to New Orleans, SP to Los Angeles, and
> because the SD&AE was washed out and they couldn't use the originally
> planned route through San Diego, the agent in LAUPT rewrote the ticket so
> they could make a roundtrip from LAUPT to San Diego on the Santa Fe.   Then
> up the coast to San Francisco, Seattle, back to Chicago on the Milwaukee
> Road and home on the PRR.   Shuman went to Chicago, met George Krambles and
> Bill Janssen, and went west on the Milwaukee, down to SF on the SP and home
> on the UP and PRR … he had to get back to work on the Pennsy.   Difference
> was, John was living with family and Shuman was supporting mother and
> sister.
>
>
Of course, now you get there if the airlines deign to fly you. And even
then the pricing is good only if they think it has to be, and otherwise you
get "yield-managed" out of as much as possible.

I have a memory of seeing tan and cream trolleys with green and red
> tailings in downtown Cleveland and that would have had to have been the
> summer of 1946 or 1947.   Somewhere in there visiting Niagara Falls for the
> first time and visiting Dad's sister, when she lived in Dayton, fit it.
>

I drove to Cleveland yesterday for lunch (dim sum, from a cart), shopping
(West Side Market), and beer (Great Lakes Brewing). Then drove home and
went back to work.



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