Tuesday, April 21, 2020

A Relaxing Train Trip on the Pennsy

Since we're stuck here at home, my wife was going through her old scrapbooks, and came across this:


Back when my wife was in high school, she, her sister, and two cousins took a local train on the Pennsylvania Railroad from Effingham, Ill. to Indianapolis to visit some relatives.   And she saved the ticket.  It's glued into the scrapbook, so these scans are not the best, but it's interesting to look back to a time when the railroads were still running their own passenger service.  And you could even take a cross-country trip like this between Effingham and Indianapolis.




The fare was $13.31 for four people, round trip.  You can't make it out at the top, but there are three boxes, labeled "½", "RT", and "OW"  (for Round Trip and One Way) and RT is checked.  The agent had to write out the destinations in the boxes, then use his special date stamp, and so on.  Very time-consuming.  Now if only she had taken some pictures of the train....

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