[PRCo] Re: PRCo PCC and West Penn car

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Latrobe quit a week before the main line.  The fantrip cars went as far as
Calumet and were photographed on the trestle there.

Ed

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRCo PCC and West Penn car



In a message dated 1/14/03 12:32:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wb3iqe at rocketmail.com writes:

<< 'm on even thinner ice here, but didn't the West Penn Latrobe line
 close down in 1952?
  >>
Yes it did,  shortly before the Main line and other rail operations.  The
last fan trip on August 10, 1952 I believe was able to travel out part of
the
Latrobe line to one of the trestles

Fred