[PRCo] Re: end of the West Penn

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I knew Larry...he was a friend of Bob Van Atta and was allowed to copy
company pictures.  Last time I spoke with him, he had loaned the negatives
to someone, and guess what?  They were never returned!  Surprise, surprise!

In 1971 he gave us 8 x 10s of everything he copies, and we did use one or
two of them where we had no choice...they generally had a reflection of one
of the copy lights in a critical part of the picture.  Larry was a great guy
with a colorful vocabulary.  We went out i the field a couple times.  He was
a teacher at, I believe, Greensburg-Salem SD.

I've photographed one of the car bodies near New Castle...believe it's at
Chez Mitchell in Uniontown now.

Ed

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Derrick J Brashear
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 2:05 AM
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Subject: [PRCo] end of the West Penn


Was visiting a friend of mine tonight (my age, actually younger) who had a
few items from... I believe it was Larry Slough's estate. Anyway, in his
copy of the PRMA West Penn book was a letter from 1971 signed by Ed
Lybarger thanking him for the photos he submitted for inclusion in the
book. Also there were 3 or 4 pages of a handwritten note from someone
about the final years of the West Penn; I didn't find the last page, so I
have no idea who wrote it, but one of the things in the note (which I had
trouble reading) seemed to say 800-series cars were detrucked and taken to
New Castle to be used as homes. Don't go out looking for them, (I'm
certainly not going to) it's just something interesting to share.