[PRCo] An Open Letter to Ed Lybarger

[Fred Schneider]

Ed and I had no idea where the Newell Bridge and Railway cars ran in  
Newell ...

So we'll tell the whole wide world.

I have in front of me three pictures...

One is a copy by Malcolm McCarter from an original postcard size from  
Steve Maguire.   Hey, Man, wouldn't you expect that to be the other  
way around.   At any rate, it shows car 30 in front of a carbarn  
in ... this is in Steve's handwriting ... "Newell, Ohio" in 1935.    
Now folks, Newell, is in West Virginia.   Is on a wide brick  
street.   That makes sense and sort of confirms that the building we  
thought was a carbarn might just be the carbarn.    Two tracks into  
the barn and one parallel to it.   Double-track in the street.   Or  
maybe two splitting into one at the barn door and another splitting  
off the southbound main on the street ... and that fits better with  
the hardware in the brickwork over the door as I remember it.

The other picture I have looks away from East Liverpool on the main  
street in Newell ... paved in brick ... double track trolley line as  
far as the eye can see.   There is some sort of an impressive  
building in the middle of the town ... company store type of  
building.   The rest of the buildings are unpainted.   Car 32 is  
rumbling (a good railfan word) toward East Liverbile and too its left  
are two railfans peering down into the view finders.   None of the  
buildings have any paint on them.   The date was February 7, 1937.    
In this case, the photographer was a Cleveland lad, the late Ralph E.  
Perkin.

The town looked just about as ugly then as it did on Saturday.