Biography

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

> This past year I spent a week
> traveling the Coke Region routes to see what I could find and had a ball.
> Will be happy to share what I found with anyone interested.

	This is the place to do it  --  this list is PRCo--WP--JTC all
combined, so anything you have to share will be of great interest!
	My maternal grandmother grew-up in Connellsville and always told me
about the *b-i-g* trolleycars they had up there.  It wasn't until I
purchased that first WP publication by PRMA that I knew what she was
talking about.  It may not give the complete history of the line, but
then I am not really interested in the underliers, the consolidations,
the bond float and IPO, but I am interested in the equipment, the prw
and street running, schedules, supporting structures, shelters,
stations, overhead and the fact that it operated day to dayfrom about
1920 until 1952.

> I have started a HO traction pike of course modeled after the West Penn and
> PRCo. with a splash of Wheeling.

	Will you have an "O" pike as well?  If you are able to get pictures
scanned, maybe Derrick or Robert *Dietrich* (who is making the HO SHJ
module), would be able to put them on their website.

> My roster includes 3 West Penn 700's, 2 PRCo. 1000's, a PRCo. 1700 not here
> yet, and a NOPS car modified as a Wheeling car.  The barn layout is a
> compressed version of Wheeling's island barn.  The SHJ module keeps me
> motivated, as does participating and mostly
> enjoying the exchanges in this group.

> Fred Bruhn

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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