[PRCo] Re: Shelters
Fred Schneider
fschnei at supernet.com
Mon Dec 16 18:45:30 EST 2002
You are free to come and measure the Richfol stop shelter at Arden. I think you
would find it a whole lot cheaper to make a new one than to ship the decaying
lumber and termites and carpenter ants to Florida.
My father put a dog house on the end of his garaged ... the entrance door was
blocked with a panel to keep out the winter winds. Inside the little house
resided "Fido the Pump."
Macmarka at cs.com wrote:
> Looking through my collection of photos, I noticed a photo of a car at
> Drake dated 2/17/74. This was from John Bromley's collection. 1708 in o/w/o
> paint is descending the grade into the loop. I noticed up on the hill through
> the trees to the right, you can still see the abutment from the trestle and
> what looks to be the shelter from the old Drake stop on the Washington
> interurban. Makes me wonder if PAT ever removed the shelter or just let it
> sit there and rot. Makes me wonder even more if the rotting remains of that
> shelter are still there almost 30 years after this particular photo was
> taken. What ever became of some of these shelters on the old interurban
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