05-29-2010, 01:02 PM
G.E.Cab -
Just finished reading this thread from Post #1 ... Impressive! You've come a long way, Young Jedi!
Growing up in Wayne, Pa as I did, I am very familiar with PRR/SEPTA electric power ... never saw a moldy diesel the whole time I lived there. I rode those old mP54 MU "red cars" into Philly every day during the 1965-'66 school year, my freshman year at Philadelphia College of Art. I continued to ride them, although from the Springfield, DelCo station, during my sophomore year at PCA (after four years in the Army Security Agency) although, if I recall correctly, a bunch of them were by then sporting green paint and "CR" had replaced "Pennsylvania" on the car sides. They still made that inimmitable grinding/whining sound, rocking back and forth as they left the station, right after the two quick toots on the high-pitched whistle from the conductor, letting the motorman know all were on board.
[pssssst! Can you keep a secret? O.K. I can recall slipping my little finger in the metal "finger loop" on the handle of the trainman's punce and deeftly removing it from its pouch as I passed him on the end platform as I got off the train one day. On one handle is stamped "PRR" and on the other is stamped "2115" and the punch hole it makes looks like a man's head and shoulders with a brimmed hat on. Yeah, yeah, I know ... it was a terrible thing to do ... I was wrong ... but I've always wondered what that poor guy thought when he went to punch the tickets of those who got on the train in Wayne, heading for Paoli!
hock: 
:evil: 
] That ticket punch has always been my most prized railroad "memorabilia" possession!!
The point of all this old man gibberish is to get you thinking about maybe, just so the length discrepancy is not quite so noticable, paint the old classic Walthers stamped tin-side models (I have two of them myself!) in the CR green (close to Floquil's Reading Green (RR183 or new #110183), just for grins and variation. Just thinkin' .......
One day, coming in towards 30th St. Station, I snapped this shot of "Mr. Rivets" from the smoking car's end platform window ...
![[Image: MrRivetsGG-14800.jpg]](http://i1022.photobucket.com/albums/af349/wwmarsland/Prototype%20Railroading/MrRivetsGG-14800.jpg)
At any rate, I 've enjoyed reading your thread ... keep it coming ... I've subscribed to it!
Just finished reading this thread from Post #1 ... Impressive! You've come a long way, Young Jedi!
Growing up in Wayne, Pa as I did, I am very familiar with PRR/SEPTA electric power ... never saw a moldy diesel the whole time I lived there. I rode those old mP54 MU "red cars" into Philly every day during the 1965-'66 school year, my freshman year at Philadelphia College of Art. I continued to ride them, although from the Springfield, DelCo station, during my sophomore year at PCA (after four years in the Army Security Agency) although, if I recall correctly, a bunch of them were by then sporting green paint and "CR" had replaced "Pennsylvania" on the car sides. They still made that inimmitable grinding/whining sound, rocking back and forth as they left the station, right after the two quick toots on the high-pitched whistle from the conductor, letting the motorman know all were on board.
[pssssst! Can you keep a secret? O.K. I can recall slipping my little finger in the metal "finger loop" on the handle of the trainman's punce and deeftly removing it from its pouch as I passed him on the end platform as I got off the train one day. On one handle is stamped "PRR" and on the other is stamped "2115" and the punch hole it makes looks like a man's head and shoulders with a brimmed hat on. Yeah, yeah, I know ... it was a terrible thing to do ... I was wrong ... but I've always wondered what that poor guy thought when he went to punch the tickets of those who got on the train in Wayne, heading for Paoli!
hock: :evil: ] That ticket punch has always been my most prized railroad "memorabilia" possession!! The point of all this old man gibberish is to get you thinking about maybe, just so the length discrepancy is not quite so noticable, paint the old classic Walthers stamped tin-side models (I have two of them myself!) in the CR green (close to Floquil's Reading Green (RR183 or new #110183), just for grins and variation. Just thinkin' .......
One day, coming in towards 30th St. Station, I snapped this shot of "Mr. Rivets" from the smoking car's end platform window ...
At any rate, I 've enjoyed reading your thread ... keep it coming ... I've subscribed to it!
biL
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln