[PRCo] Aerial photo of PTM

[Fred Schneider]

Here is another image that you might like ... Dave Hamley sent it to  
me ... came from Google Earth.    Shows the Pennsylvania Trolley  
Museum.   You can see almost all of the right of way except for the  
loop at the Arden Mines end of the line.
North Main Street goes across the old PRR and over Chartiers Creek  
(virtually invisible) and under I-70 at the right edge of the  
picture.   You can see the large parking lot for the Thepitt  
factory.  Adjacent to the parking lot is our east site loop.   It is  
not a complete circle like a ball .. its flat on the southwest or  
parking lot side.

To the left of the parking lot you can see the long, narrow (ration  
about 1:4) trolley display building with a silver roof.   It will be  
the operating carbarn eventually.   The picture was taken before the  
tracks were in to the east end of the building from the mainline.

The Fair Grounds, with its race track, is at the left side of the map.

The Y shaped building 1/3 from the left and 1/3 from the top is the  
new Washington County Home (alms house or old farts home or home for  
the indigent).



Drive north on the road to the left of the County home about 2/3s of  
the way to the top of the picture ... at a clearing in the woods ...  
patch of green above it ... that's Bruce Well's "Chateau."   The home  
he built to have a place to go when he is at the museum.

To the left edge you see a road going up to Arden Mines from Main  
Street, and next to it (to it's right) you see the trolley line.













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