[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive

[Ed Comcast]

Died years ago. Did not know him as a photographer. 
Ed 

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On Nov 30, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:

> Does anyone on The List know "Tom O'Toole"  ?
> I notice that just about all the photos were placed on that website by Tom
> O'Toole in 2010 or 2011. I thought Tom O'Toole was no longer with us. He
> used to run the "O'Toole Lines" model traction business out of his house in
> Richmond Heights, OH. Is he still around?
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 21:40, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Matt
>> 
>> There are other charter trip photos in that series, including another one
>> of
>> the July 1952 1614 trip, and one of the 1450 at Kennywood the day after
>> service ended on Rt 68.
>> 
>> The shot of the PCC on "Roscoe Loop" is interesting.  Note the double end
>> car entering the loop.  Was this a tripper or a fantrip?  PRC called this
>> loop "Elco Loop,"  although as Ed L. has pointed out, it was not actually
>> in
>> Elco but just at the border between Roscoe and Elco and wholly on the
>> Roscoe
>> side.  The reason for the Elco name was to distinguish it from the Roscoe
>> stop, which was at Downes Store, a short distance north of the loop. Downes
>> Store was, in addition to being the 1950s version of a convenience food
>> market, an agency station for PRC.  Operators on this route usually took
>> spot time there, rather than at Elco.
>> 
>> Dwight
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Barry, Matthew R" <mrb190 at pitt.edu>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:26 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive
>> 
>> 
>>> If I happened to send you folks this link before, I am sorry for the
>>> duplication.   There is this part of me that seems to recall seeing it
>>> before, however, I don't recognize several of the photos within.
>>> 
>> http://photos.cityrails.net/show/?order=byrail&page=1&key=Pittsburgh%20Railways
>>> For instance, this one:
>>> 
>> http://photos.cityrails.net/showpic/?photo=201012172248198947.jpg&order=byrail&page=4&key=Pittsburgh%20Railways
>>> 
>>> Might this view be of the area on the 56 line, where Interboro Avenue is
>>> above the streetcar, and were the streetcar be headed in the opposite
>>> direction, it would soon be at the intersection of Interboro at Mifflin
>>> Road?
>>> 
>>> Matt
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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