[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive

[eskuchas at comcast.net]

Would this be a different O Toole? 
Ed 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herb Brannon" <hrbran at cavtel.net> 
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
Sent: Thursday, December 1, 2011 9:14:47 AM 
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive 

If you check below each of the photos Tom is given credit not for the 
photography but for posting the pics to that website in the years 2010 and 
2011. Interesting. 
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 05:42, Ed Comcast <eskuchas at comcast.net> wrote: 

> Died years ago. Did not know him as a photographer. 
> Ed 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone 
> 
> 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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Herb Brannon 
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park