Re: PC: News letter

["Walter E. Gay" <waltrail@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:54 PM 11/9/98 -0000, you wrote:
>PC DISPATCH does sound okay with me. It get's the "geographical: question
>answered. The gang has responded that anything with "worms" just wouldn't
>cut it with the civilized folk. 
>
>As far as the far-flung nature of the PC was concerned, DISPATCH does
>connote a wide-spread railroad. As of now, unless something better comes
>up, I;d go with it!!
>
>ALTHOUGH....  If we step back in time, and remember all of the railroads
>that the PC took on, and how the freight was sent over those lines as time
>progressed, we might not conjure up DISPATCH  as the first word that came
>to mind.  Maybe the question is more of "HOW" we want the PC to be
>remembered as opposed to "HOW"  it really was?       I stand ready with my 
>helmet on!
>
>Mike Rossi   MFROSSI -AT- worldnet.att.net
>
>
>

Actually freight destined from the South to Potomac yard were called
"ACD"s (Atlantic Coast Dispatch) by the RF&P until 1987 when a CSX man started
 running the rairoad and said that they should be refferred to as "POTS"!


						Walt