[PRCo] Re: P&LE station post card on ebay

[Bob Rathke]

The smoke could be from a train, or possibly from the P&LE power house.
Most of the power house was still there into the early 1960s.

Bob 6/14/02

=------------------------------------------
----- Original Message -----
From: <Macmarka at cs.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 7:43 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: P&LE station post card on ebay


>
>  I have the very same post card. Mine is used. It is postmarked Sept. 10,
> 1916. Here's a portion of the writing on the back:  "Reached Pittsburg.
All
> OK. Guess you were surprised to find the horse waiting for you."   Pretty
> neat. Will bring this to PTM June 22nd if anyone wants to see it. Seller
had
> no idea what the "white mark" was on the right side. He/she thought it was
> part of the image rubbed off. The "white mark" he/she was referring to was
> the smoke from either a train or a factory.
>
>                         Mark McGuire
>