Eldora

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	The map I sent you is not scale and items are placed on the map relative to one another but 
without any intent of being the exact location.

	Would you possibly be thinking of *Glen Echo* park in MD served by CTC of DC?

	The photo in *PCC Coast to Coast* shows 1717 "near the site of the long closed Eldora Park" 
but does not give the direction of the car.  It is on tangent double track and appears to curve to 
the left in the background so the car is not heading north of the location in your photo or the 
curve in the background would be to the right.  Wonder what "long closed" means - after the war, 
during the war, or before the war?

Don Galt wrote:
> 
> [Time to get this exchange out of the closet.
> 
> It started with my sending to a couple of friends a picture taken looking
> north from PA State Highway 837, presumably down the interurban right of
> way in the direction of Black Diamond.
> 
> I also posed the question, where had Eldora Park been located?]
> 
> Among the responses, this from Jim Holland:
> 
> >> This photo won't be much more help but in *PCC From Coast to Coast*,
> >> page 177, bottom right is a photo of 1717 going past the long abandoned
> >> Eldora.  I would guess that Eldora was north of
> >> your photo someplace, but exactly where, I don't know!
> >>        Basically, Eldora was somewhere between Black Diamond Junction and
> >> Summit!  You already know that, right?!!!!!!! <<
> 
> I don't have "Coast to Coast" but somewhere - can't remember where - I have
> seen a picture of Eldora Park.
> 
> But wait a darn minute, Jim. The only clue I have is the unscaled map of
> sidings that you sent me: despite your enhancements it is hard to read, but
> I would judge that it shows Summit (just a spot, not a station), Eldora and
> Eldora Park bunched close together, with Glendenning something like halfway
> between Eldora Park and Black Diamond.
> 
> Anyway, I'd hazard the guess that Eldora stop would have been just north of
> the highway overbridge - what better location for a station? - and thus
> barely below the summit, with Eldora Park very close by, perhaps just
> around the bend in the picture.
> 
> Okay, experts.....
> 
> Don G

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