[PRCo] Re: Latrobe

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I'm using the PTM Library copy.  Certainly!

Likewise on the $10.

No need to dig out the slide...Derrick posted essentially the same view.

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Derrick J Brashear
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:08 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Latrobe



On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> According to Bob Van Atta's WP corporate history, the LSR's first run may
> have been May 30, 1900 (and then again it may not have been).  The route,

Is this in a library somewhere I can wander in and photocopy it? Seems
like it might be useful to have around.

> I've also located some photocopies of pages from "Historic Latrobe: A
glance
> or two at earlier times," published in 1985 by the Latrobe Historical
> Society.  There's a trolley in the cover photo (Ligonier at Main, 1915),
and
> more on pages 36-37:  A WCRy car on High Street, Bradenville, WP 202 in
1924
> with snow up to the top of the windows, Ligonier Street 1905, and a
last-day
> shot.  Does anyone have a copy of this book that we could scan at a decent
> resolution?

No, but I'm willing to shell out the $10 for the ability to go look
through their archives:
http://www.greaterlatrobe.net/latrobehistory/member.htm

> Somewhere I have a neatly and properly filed slide of the first Latrobe
car
> house property.  I'm pretty sure  Fred was with me at the time, but I have
> no recollection of the date.  Perhaps his memory is better than mine (he
has
> slides of it too) and can tell me the date, in which case I will scan the
> image and send it to Derrick for posting.  It is not December 1996.
>
> I will be away until Wednesday night...can, in an emergency, be found at
> chez Schneider in snowy Lancaster finishing the B&W prints for the
museum's
> new exhibit.
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