[PRCo] Re: 2002 PTM calendar

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!!

> Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:

>> Bill was named after a Presidential candidate.

> That is correct, William Jennings Bryan Gwinn.

> I wish I had a disposition of all the Co-Op cars.  39, a Cincinnati curveside
> car is at Seashore.  47 sat on Route 250 as a storage shed in a junk yard
> until it rotted away.
> .......The two sloped end cars that Harold mentions (100 and 101)
> have been rumored to have gone to a lake towards Columbus for use as cabins.
> Someday I plan on searching this out.  The first car was modified to
> modernize the ends, and the second built from
> scratch.  They initially made trips on all lines, but my photos seem to
> indicate they were used on Martin Ferry lines and Shadyside mostly.

> I went home and got my grandmother to find out if I could go in and see
> the photos and she had no reservations of barging right in.  Bill came in off
> his run soon after and that is how I met him.

> We are fortunate Bill Gwinn and you other photo historians were around and
> had the foresight to capture the trolley years.  If Bill had not discovered
> -- as he once said "gee I found out other people liked to take to trolley
> photos too" from that first fan trip he was conductor on, we would have scant
> coverage of Co-Op.  I have been running
> a series in Traction and Trolleys Quarterly off and on for the past 10 years.
>  We have one chapter to go.  All I owe the editor is a system map and its
> done.  Ed and I have tossed around doing Co-Op as a museum project sometime
> and I hope we can get to it.

	I have slowly been going through the mountain of information that you
sent to me, Fred, and find it fascinating!   Sunday drives were typical
in the early 1950s and I remember going through some of those Ohio River
towns and seeing the car--tracks still in the street!

	I never would have pursued Mon--West Penn nor Co-Op on my own, but now
that I know someone who has an interest, it has become much more
appealing.

	Hope that you and Ed find the time to make an official publication!
 
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James B. Holland

Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation
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        Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM) http://www.pa-trolley.org/
    Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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