[PRCo] Re: Drake via Overbrook

Kenneth Josephson kjosephson at sprintmail.com
Wed Sep 5 17:39:12 EDT 2001


Welcome Aboard, Mark! There was a Interurban Books video entitled "Pittsburgh
Trolleys, 1975."  It covers a bit of the Drake line, probably less than the TGM
film. I videotaped the Drake line out the windshield of a 4000 series  PCC in
1999, but most of the line was modernized, plus service did not extend over the
Overbrook line.

I have dozens of photos Roberta Hill shot along both Drake and Overbrook which
aren't posted on the internet, but I don't know when I could go through them.
They are interspersed among thousands of other locations Ms. Hill photographed in
Pittsburgh between 1962 and 1973.

Ed Lybarger would know what's in the Miller Library at PTM concerning images of
the Drake and Overbrook lines.

Fred Schneider and John Bromley both took outstanding images of the line, but I'm
sure you already knew that! :-) We've both bought John's work and I purchased
some images from Fred. Maybe we can persuade them to check their archives to see
what they may have and be willing to print up for you.

Ken J.

P.S.- You aren't off the hook......introduce yourself to the rest of us! :-)





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