| From: CIMCAD::PIERSON "21-Mar-1997 1856 -0400" 21-MAR-1997 19:02:04.87
To: @[.RR]MEMBERS
CC: PIERSON
Subj: Patriots Day Trip & More
1) The annual Digital RR Club Patriots Day Trip is scheduled for
21 April
Nominal Destination Newark NJ, for One Last Ride on the PCC cars, which
are due to be LRV'ed out of existence 'real soon now'.
Anyone Interested in joining, accompanying, etc, drop me a line.
2) For A Better Busy Weekend the day before (The weekend before, in fact)
the 19th and 20th is the Nashua Valley RR Club SHow, in Bolton, MA.
Digital Club Layout will be there on the 20th [Sunday].
regards
dwp
From: GGONE::PIERSON 25-MAR-1997 09:17:08.35
To: NETCAD::MORRISON
CC: PIERSON
Subj: Patriots Day Trip & More
Bob:
>Subj: RE: Patriots Day Trip & More
>Re the PCC cars being taken out of service in Newark: Is this the PATH line
>that we are talking about?
Totally separate systems. PATH runs NYC to Hobken & Newark.
(sort of an X shaped system, with odd interruotings.
The PCC cars run on 'the NewarK Subway' (I've no CLEW if thats its
real name...). One end of that is Under Penn Station Newark, it goes
a couple of stops undergound, then surfaces, on private RoW for 'some'
more stops. (very like some of the Boston lines, in feel, and, i
ASSume, in history. Never gets so far into the 'burbs as, say, the
Boston Riverside line...)
>I hope the PCC cars end up running in a museum somewhere and not on the
>scrap heap.
Same thought went thru my mind. My ASSumption that as Running,
Maintained (more or less) examples, and with more light rail (eg:
Manhattan, Hoboken) coming on line, they may be dispersed to those
lines as 'special event' cars. (eg: instant history...)
regards
dwp
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