KEYSTONE VOL 51, 3 PENNSYLVANIA GREYHOUND LINES, BADEN WRECK, WOMEN ON THE PRR
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THIS IS THE KEYSTONE, VOL 51 NO32, AUTUMN 2018. THIS IS PRODUCED BY THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD TECHNICAL AND HISTORY SOCIETY. (PRRT&HS). IT WOULD BE A GREAT REFERENCE OF THE HISTORY OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. WELCOME ABOARD, IN THIS ISSUE, FRONT COVER: P5a 4725 WITH A CABIN CAR, CIRCA THE LATE 1950s.KEYSTONE NEWS, THE STATE OF 1361, / LEWISTOWN... HAPPENINGS, / FREINDS OF RAILROAD MUSEUM COMMISSION, / LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, / PHILIP DUFFY, OF DUFFY'S CUT INFAMY. PENNSYLVANIA GREYHOUND LINES. HISTORY, MAP, 34 PAGES AND 74 PHOTOS. PLUS A PEOPLE'S RAPID TRANSIT CO. BUS ROSTER. IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO CONSTRUCT ROSTERS OF MANY GREYHOUND OPERATING COMPANIES FOR THE YEARS BEFORE 1940. ALSO A ROSTER OF PENNSYLVANIA GREYHOUND LINES, 1937 - 1955. THE PENNSY IN THE DRINK. THE MYSTERIOUS DERAILMENT OF TRAIN 316 AT BADEN, PENNSYLVANIA, MARCH 16, 1941. DURING A LATE WINTER BLIZARD, EASTBUND PRR TRAIN 316, THE BUCKEYE, A FIVE CAR CLEVELAND TO PITTSBURGH EXPRESS VIA YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, DERAILED ONE MILE EAST OF BADEN, PENNSYLVANIA. BADEN WAS AT THE EAST END OF PRR's CONWAY YARDS, ON THE OHIO RIVER, WHICH THE PRR (PFtW&C) MAIN LINE PARALLELED FROM ROCHESTER, PA., TO NEAR DOWNTOWN PITTSBURGH. MAP, 17 PHOTOS AND A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING WITH A $50O0 REWARD FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE WRECK.A TWO PAGE ARTICLE ON JOHN CEPLECE, PRR ENGINMAN. THE AUTHOR WROTE TO JOHN A RETIRED ENGINMAN JOHN AND HE SAID HE WORKED THE YOUNGSTOWN / ASHTABULA, CLEVELAND / PITCARIN, CLEVELAND / PITTSBURGH AND CLEVELAND / SHIRE OAKS POOLS. HE TURNED OUT TO BE A 95 YEAR OLD GENTLEMAN WITH MANY STORIES OF HIS LIFE WITH THE PENNSY. FIVE PHOTOS. PENNSY'S PITCARIN WOMEN OF WORLD WAR 2. SHORTAGES OF MANPOWER CROPPED UP IN MANY INDUSTRIES AND RAIROADS WAS ONE. WE OFFER BELATED KUDOS TO THESE LARGELY UNAPPRECIATED LADIES WHO DID YEOMAN JOBS DURING A TIME OF CRITICAL NEED. SIX PAGES WITH 14 PHOTOS.MOLLY PITCHER ARTICLE POSTCRIPT. THE ORGINAL WORKER WHO POSED FOR THE RAILROAD'S MOLLY ITCHER, 1944 ADVERTISEMENT, RUTH HILIGER HOFFMAN, A PENSY SWITCH TENDER DURING WW2. THE ORGINAL 1940 PRR IMAGERS WERE RECNTLY SOLD ON EBAY. FIVE PHOTOS AND THE MOLLY PITCHER ADD, WOMEN ARE DOING A BIG JOB ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. THE FINAL MOLLY PITCHER, 1944 ADVERISEMENT. CENTRAL NEW JERSEY TO THE RESCUE OF PENNSYLVANIA's GG1 WRECK IN 1967. A SERIOUS WRECK OCCURRED ON THE PRR IN EDISON, NEW JERSY AT 3:27 A.M. ON SUNDAY 8, 1967. ON THAT DARK NIGHT AT LEAST TWO VANDALS PLACED A RAILROAD TIE ON ONE OF THE MAIN LINE TRACKS IN A REMOTE AREA OF EDISON, INTENT ON CAUSING A WRECK. SEVEN PHOTOS.A WILD NIHT RUN. AN INCIDENT OF RAILROADING ON THE PENNSYLVANIA's MAIN LINE IN THE 1880s. BIG EXPRESS ENGINE 1786 WAITED FOR A GREEN LIGHT TO START THRUGH THE MAZE OF TRACKS IN HARRISBURG YARD ON ITS LONG RUN TO PHILDELPHIA. GATHERING MOMENTM, THE TRAIN DASHED THROUGH THE NIGHT, WHEN SUDDENLY DAZZLING LIGHTS GLARED ALL AROUND. BIG, HALF NAKED MEN, LOOKING ALL THE MORE GIGANTIC IN THE RADIANCE, RAN HITHER AND THITHER UPON TASKS WHICH ONLY COULD BE SURMISED, AND THEN THE PICTURE BLOTTED OUT. IT WAS A GRUP OF IRON MILL WORKERS. TWO PHOTOS AND A NEWSPAPER CLIPPING ENTILED, PROPOSED 6-TRACK PRR MAIN LINE BETWEEN EKMORA AND LANE DROPS SIX-TRACK PLAN.CORK TOWR, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA PICTORIAL. TEN PHOTOS AND TWO HALF PAGE DIAGRAMS OF THE CORK OLD INTERLOCKING MACHINE.SHORT STORIES ON THE FOLLOWING, PRR's EASTMAN BOXCARS, A ROSTER AND ONE PHOTO, / NEXT SLOW ORDERS THROUGH GORDONVILLE.
END MARKER AND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. 83 PAGESHIGH BID PAYS $3.65 MEDIA MAIL. LOWER 48 U.S.A. ONLY. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.ROCK ON PRNNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.SORRY FOR THE CAPS, POOR EYESIGHT.
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END MARKER AND DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS. 83 PAGESHIGH BID PAYS $3.65 MEDIA MAIL. LOWER 48 U.S.A. ONLY. THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.ROCK ON PRNNSYLVANIA RAILROAD.SORRY FOR THE CAPS, POOR EYESIGHT.
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