Eldora

[EDWARD H. LYBARGER]

Glen Echo was never quite this isolated!

Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Don Galt <GaltFD at compuserve.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: Eldora


> >>      Would you possibly be thinking of *Glen Echo* park in MD served by
> CTC of DC? <<
>
> ???????????
>
> Nope, I've ridden the streetcar past Glen Echo. Different river, different
> livery. And even Pennsylvania, which has a town named Righty-eight,
doesn't
> have a destination named Cabin John.
>
> If this question was occasioned by my reference to "Glendenning" - well,
> there it is on your map.
>
> >> 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? <<
>
> Your logic appears faultless, and don't have the photo myself for
> comparison. Though somewhere, somewhere, I've seen a similar picture.
Okay,
> I don't have my heart set on any particular location for a long-gone
> amusement park.
>
> But answer me this: if Eldora station (not Eldora Park) wasn't located at
> the Rte. 837 crossing, what was? Not Summit - that wasn't a stop. No stop
> at all there? Pshaw!
>
> C'mon, experts!!! Archivists???
>
> Whatever. It was great fun tooling through the area, even on a harried
> schedule.
>
> Don
>