[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive

[Herb Brannon]

Possibly. However, to find two guys involved in traction, and both spelling
their last name "O'Toole" (note the E on the end), is a stretch of the odds.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 09:18, <eskuchas at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park