[PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines

[Dwight Long]

Ed

The sly point in all this was that it is Middletown’s airport by code, not Harrisburg’s.  

Harrisburg must have had an airport before they got MDT, but I think it may have been before the codes were assigned as HBG is assigned to Hattiesburg, Miss. I find it hard to believe that the latter beat Harrisburg to the punch in having a commercial airport.

Even more fun can be had with asking the question about Cincinnati--------------------------

Dwight

From: Edward H. Lybarger 
Sent: Saturday, 26 April, 2014 08:37
To: 'Western PA Trolley discussion' 
Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines
Today's Harrisburg International Airport (MDT) was the former Olmstead Air
Force Base near Middletown.  Again, your tax dollars at play.

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Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines


Fred

I don't have a clue about the men in Hershey, unless they consumed too much
of the local product.

The women in Hummelstown are perplexed because the last flood, supposedly a
500 year episode, washed out the local railway bridge and they have been cut
off from Middletown for a couple of years. But not to worry, your Govt to
the rescue-the bridge is undergoing (maybe it is finished by now) a
multi-million dollar repair and the fair maidens will lament no more.

I just came back from a train trip that went over a similarly Govt funded,
restored bridge-in White Deer, Pa., but the expenditure was only a paltry
million USD.

Your tax dollars at work.  Although I must admit I can think of far worse
uses for them.

BTW, if one flies into Harrisburg (on commercial service), whose airport is
used?

Dwight

From: Fred Schneider
Sent: Thursday, 24 April, 2014 21:07
To: Western PA Trolley discussion
Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines
The men in Hershey and women in Hummelstown is perplexing.   Why?

Older versus younger might represent a change in how some state or federal
government agencies awarded parking spaces.  



On Apr 24, 2014, at 6:58 PM, John Swindler wrote:

> 
> 
> When I first started riding the 7:20 am Hershey bus to Harrisburg around
2000, ridership never exceeded 6 during first year, and occasionally I was
the only rider.  After 5-6 years, a 40 foot bus was assigned when ridership
routinely exceeded 20.  By 2010, a third bus was added to the schedule to
alleviate overcrowding.
> 
> About the only constant for a dozen years was that I rode this bus.  There
was constant change in the ridership.  For a few years it was mostly women.
Then for a few years mostly men.  Then switched back to women.  At the end,
men tended to board in Hershey, while the women boarded in Hummelstown.
Even the age of riders fluctuated.  Older riders in early years.  A lot of
young people at the end.    
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:26:03 -0400
>> From: shadow at dementix.org
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Fred Schneider
<fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
>> 
>>> Unduplicated route miles in Toronto after the Bloor subway opened might
>>> have been around 40ish.   At that time Pittsburgh was still running to
>>> McKeesport, Drake, Library, West View.  Millvale and the West End 
>>> One of my favorite examples is a comparison of two almost identical
cities .
>>> Harrisburg, Pa. and Victoria, BC.   Both have populations on the same
order
>>> of magnitude but the Canadian city has ten times more bus riders 
>>> than the Pennsylvania city . 150,000 on a weekday in Victoria versus
15,000 in
>>> Harrisburg.   You stand on the main streets in downtown Victoria in the
>>> rush hour and you see buses swallowing up crowds of people.  I did that
in
>>> 2007.  Harrisburg?  Why would I humble myself to ride a bus?   I own a
car.
>>> 
>>> 
>> Why would I do either? my bike certainly took me from Camp Hill to 
>> the Eisenhower Interchange and back easily enough ;)
>> 
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