[PRCo] Re: Location for MWP curved-side picture

[Fred Schneider]

One of the great joys of this hobby is the camaraderie that comes  
from going out and trying to figure out where a photo was taken ...  
doesn't matter whether you win or lose as long as you don't take the  
game too seriously.  Sometimes you find where the picture was  
taken.   Sometimes you don't.   It can be a great excuse for two or  
three guys just to get together for a day.   And you don't have to  
spend it all trying to figure out where the picture was taken  
either.   Ed and I have wandered through the pottery factory in  
Newell WV (Janis wanted something).   We've looked at the inside of  
the former prison in Moundsville WV.   I think I may have bewildered  
him one night in a small restaurant in Germany when I simply asked  
the "kellerin" to bring me whatever they had that was "am besten"  
that evening; I didn't care what I ate but I was worn out from  
driving from Zurich to the Zeppelin museum in Frederichshafen and we  
still had to drive the rest of the way around Lake Constance and back  
to Zurich.  The fun of being out with friends transcends the purpose  
of going.

Sometimes the stories that result can be retold for years.   There is  
a picture by Ed Lybarger of John Swindler and me pushing my white  
Jetta (it really wasnt stuck) in the snow on a former West Penn right- 
of-way east Scottdale.  And then there was the day in Connemaugh when  
Ed someone said we needed a "geezer" (that was before we all achieved  
geezer status) to tell us where the house was that the Southern  
Cambria car destroyed; when lo and behold I saw a geezer crossing the  
street; and he was old enough to remember the accident around 1918.    
It turned out it's the house with the statue of Jesus on the lawn,  
perhaps to protect it from any further incursions of trolleys?    
Fortunately, none of us have yet suffered from snake bite.

And, if I've never said it before, I'll publicly say there is no  
better friend than the ones who drive 250 miles to welcome you home  
from the hospital after heart surgery (mine) or a stroke (my  
wife's).   Thanks to Ed and his wife.

And that has also been one of the joy's of this list.   I've met a  
lot of new people.   For introducing me to them, thanks Derrick.

On Jan 2, 2007, at 10:54 PM, Donald Galt wrote:

> On 2 Jan 2007 at 13:08, Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Don't mess with Ed when it comes to identifying photos
>
> As if!
>
> I'm delighted to have the picture located. Wish I'd asked long ago.
>
> I realise now that a little more tekking would have unearthed  
> Wheeling's
> Warwood line. And now I know what to look for, I see a picture of  
> Co-Operative
> Transit's 32 on p.26 of the PRMA West Penn book. And a notation  
> about Co-Op's
> 31-51 series in the Wheeling Traction roster in CERA 110. Though  
> not, I hasten
> to add, in the roster in the PRMA book. And nobody trusts CERA 110,  
> right?
>
> ;-)
>
> In any case, I'm going to plead justifiable confusion. I've never  
> quite
> untangled the relationships among West Penn, MWP, Parkersburg- 
> Marietta,
> Wheeling Traction (under whatever name) and Panhandle Traction. All  
> but one of
> which ran Curved-sides.
>
> AND I was seduced by the picture on p.138 of CERA 110 which I  
> believe is in
> fact MWP and which I took, apparently mistakenly, to be in the same  
> general
> area.
>
> Anyway, thanks to both Ed and Fred for the wealth of material.
>
>> You have been talking about colors at Tylerdale and this print  
>> sure doesn't
>> show Wheeling's colors very well.  The cars were orange and  
>> yellow, with white
>> "safety" ends in later years.  However in later years the grime  
>> and smoke from
>> the valley gave them the same color fading that Pittsburgh had.
>>
>
> The Co-Op pictures on PRMA pp.25-27 show (apparently) all orange  
> below the belt
> rail and all cream above at least to the window tops. My 33 is  
> obviously
> painted differently. Faded or not, more cream would have been  
> prettier.
>
>> Portions of the wye at 10th and Main in Wheeling are just starting  
>> to pop up
>> through the asphalt.  If you know the line, the curve in North  
>> Main where the
>> line both went from double track to single track and moved off the  
>> highway can
>> be figured out, and almost the entire line is now a bike trail and  
>> can be
>> ridden.  I must
>> do that sometime.
>
> Looks like time for another field trip!
>
> Don G
>
>
>