[PRCo] Altoona Website

[Fred W. Schneider III]

John:

Horseshoe Curve Chapter NRHS has a display on Altoona trolleys at the
curve ... press release can be viewed by going to the following
website.  Bob Dietrich sent this to me.

http://www.trainweb.org/horseshoecurve-nrhs/underwire.htm 

Can I impose on the governor's generosity to have you make several
inkjet color prints for me from the display?  These include one view of
car 74 with the cream V front (16th photo in left column), and one of 70
from overhead with an Esso gas station (18th photo in right column). The
cream front scheme was applied to cars before WW2 and the picture
probably wasn't taken after 1948.  

The 24th picture in the left column is misdated; 1954 is impossible ...
car 158 and the steel single truck car(135-139 series, Cincinnati,
1911)  to its right were long gone by 1954.  Westbrook probably took
that picture before World War II. This and the three former Oil City
Birney cars were used on two short lines that went up the hill on the
west side of town.  Of those, 18th Street was abandoned in 1934.  The
three former Cititzens Traction Birney cars (100-102) lasted until the
Fairview (22nd Avenue) line quit in 1940.  I don't think any of the
135-139 series were around after the middle 1930s; they certainly were
not on a 1940 inventory.