Eldora

[EDWARD H. LYBARGER]

Part of this was answered in my last reply.

I do not have a closure date (nor an opening one) for Eldora Park.  I
suspect some perusal of Carroll Twp. tax assessment records may be in order,
along with another day at the County Recorder's office.  Suggest that it
closed in the Depression.

Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 5:03 AM
Subject: Re: Eldora


> 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
>
> --
> James B. Holland
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