[Magdalen] Scranton

[Jay Weigel]

Trust me, the rest of it is like a roller coaster!

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 6:16 PM, ROGER STOKES <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> I must admit the pan-handle of WV I drove across from OH to PA was also
> hilly.  My main trip to that state was in 2012 and I wasn't driving, and
> was only in one corner of it.  It didn't strike ma having too many steep
> hills, apart from the valleys in Harpers Ferry.
> Roger
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>      On Thursday, 18 June 2015, 23:00, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>  Don't go to West Virginia if you think Pennsylvania is hilly! I have never
> driven in a more up-and-down place in my life! I decided when we drove
> through it north to south that it must have been God's first attempt at
> Texas, but God wasn't happy with it so he threw it over there in the
> corner.....for surely if you flattened it out, it would be nearly
> Texas-sized!
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> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:53 PM, ROGER STOKES <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
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> > I have decided that Pennsylvania is scenic, which is a euphemism for
> > hilly.  It's beautiful as well but I caqn understand some roads becoming
> > very tricky in the winter.  Yesterday morning was warm, sunny and not
> humid
> > so I decided to take a stroll in the park - Nay Aug Park to be precise.
> It
> > was good to explore with much to see in a small area.  Latder the day
> > turned cooler so I explored a bit of the Pocono area by car.
> > Knowing that the journey to Buffalo shouldn't take all day I decided to
> > take time to visit the Electric City Trolley Museum first, and I was very
> > glad I did.  The museum itself was very informative and told me about two
> > kinds of third rail electrification I had not met before - one where the
> > live rail is in the middle between the running tracks and the other where
> > the train's power shoe contacted the underside of the rail rather than
> the
> > top.  I imagine that helped when there was poor weather or something on
> the
> > rail that inhibited contact.
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> > The trip on the trolley was longer, faster and more interesting than I
> had
> > expected with the conductor pointing out various things alongside or
> > visible from the trolley track.  From there I headed straight to Buffalo
> > which passed without incident.  NY state has its hills as well, but they
> > seem more rolling than the ones in PA.
> > Roger
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