[PRCo] UMW blamed for diesels

[John Swindler]

Sounds like you visited Biltmore.  
 
Tennessee is only an eight hour drive from Lancaster.  That's in 2014, not 1954.  
 
It was around two hours Gatlinburg to Ashville a month ago.  Suspect your timing was better than ours - the flowers at Biltmore were just starting to bloom.
 
Amazing the revolution brought about by interstate highways.  We make spur of the moment trips today that would have been a major project during our parents/grandparents generation.  
 
 
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 14:23:00 -0400
> From: shadow at dementix.org
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] UMW blamed for diesels
> 
> > Just one example to hammer it home.   In 1955 we left the grandparents in
> > Marietta, Ohio about 9 a.m. one day and pulled into a model in Wytheville,
> > Virginia around 7 p.m.   Wytheville is where US route 11 crossed US route
> > 19.   Took the whole freaking day and by then they had a modern convenience
> > called the West Virginia Turnpike.   Now the comparison.   The end of
> > April, this year, I left Ed Lybarger's home in Washington County, Pa in the
> > morning, passed through Wytheville after lunch and holed up at Bruce
> > Bente's home in Hendersonville, NC for dinner.   That's close to 300 miles
> > more than the long day in 1955 and I started the more recent trip on ice
> > and snow!  Now the admission … we did pause on the 1955 trip to photograph
> > the Powhattan Arrow coming through Bluefield as well as the Virginian's day
> > local.  (Dad was easy to convince.)
> >
> 
> Gwen and I drove to Asheville 2 weekends ago. Left Pittsburgh at 5. Had to
> deal with outbound rush and an accident by Southpointe.  Dinner (tasty
> pizza joint) just before 9 in Fayetteville WV ... thanks to the Appalachian
> Development Highway System, we didn't have to go out of our way to
> Charleston. Bedded down before midnight at a hotel in Wytheville. That was
> no big deal. The trip back from Chattanooga(*) several days later was
> straight through to Charleston for dinner via Kingsport and routes 23 and
> 119, then on home. Long, to be sure, but still nothing like the old days.
> 
> * We had dinner that Monday night by the Lookout Mountain incline. Closed
> already. Tuesday we rode it. Like the Duquesne Incline, you can walk
> beneath the boarding area and see the machinery... which was built in
> Pittsburgh! Very different than Pittsburgh or Johnstown survivors which are
> true planes, theirs follows the terrain.
> 
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