Amusement Parks and West View Park

[Fred W. Schneider III]

The damage was more than one end.  M-1 is sans vestibules and wrapped in a tarp,
and to make matters worse, no one really has any blueprints to figure out how to
put it back together.  We do know, from the shop number on the window sash, that
it is much older than originally presumed.  It was built as a double-truck car.
Pittsburgh, Allegheny and Manchester as well as the company that had the original
Duquesne Gardens car barn had identical cars.  Some were sold off to Baltimore
for the opening of the elevated line.

I've not seen Wilkins in years ... believe he is still with Transport of New
Jersey.  Art Schwartz and Ed Lybarger have seen him for recently.

Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

> Darn - when I was in the Wheeling area attending college in 59-60-61 and
> working at the museum PO (prior to any serious electric operation) my future
> wife and I ate almost every weekend at Elby's "out the pike" and the
> strawberry pie was great then too.
>
> Speaking of PO,  does John Wilkens ever come back, or is he still involved in
> any way.  John was the overhead man at the time, but once operation did start
> he ran
> I believe WP-1 into Rinney's PrCo paycar and rearranged the one end, or maybe
> both by shoving it into the end of the barn.
>
> Fred Bruhn