[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive

[Jerry "Matt" Matsick]

Herb - Living in Donora from 1941 to 1959!   Experienced  Jones Low Floor cars and different PCC, plus seeing
3700 or 3800 series cars in operation.
Jerry 

----- Original Message -----
From: Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Sent: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:35:34 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive

Were you in Donora on October 30/31, 1948?
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 19:38, Jerry "Matt" Matsick <
jerry.matsick at comcast.net> wrote:

> Fred, not sure of the exact year, but around 1951 or 52?		   but it
> was there, why would I some 60 years later still see it in my mind!
> Jerry M
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Fred Schneider 
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Sent: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:14:05 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive
>
> What year Jerry?
>
>
> On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Jerry Matt Matsick wrote:
>
> > EYEWITNESS REPORT -  this came up some time back, but as a youth living
> in Donora and with a love for Street Cars, I witnessed a PCC coming south
> into Donora, saw the car at 9th and McKean, now I was told that
> > I was in error, but when you are used to the old Orange/Yellow cars that
> operated in and out of Donora, when a
> > RED and CREAM PCC comes to town you take note of it.   I am an old man
> now, but I know what I saw!
> > Jerry Matsick
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Fred Schneider
> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org, Dwight Long
> > Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:23:35 -0000 (UTC)
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive
> >
> > Interesting.  I have a picture of one of the PCCs on the Donora spur,
> leading me to believe they went down to Donora and back after wying there.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 1, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Dwight Long wrote:
> >
> >> Ken
> >>
> >> Yes, 1646 was the second car on this trip.  It was used mainly by
> members and guests of the Akron Railroad Club.  The date of the trip was 27
> July 1952.
> >>
> >> Just to clarify matters, the side trip to Donora was done in service
> cars, 1700-series PCC to Black Diamond and DE Jones car from there to
> Donora and back. This was in lieu of having lunch in Charleroi.  The wye at
> the Donora station was still in situ then, but I don’t know whether it
> was operable.  Does anyone on this list know of any enthusiast trips that
> used SE cars into Donora and turned on the wye?
> >>
> >> Dwight
> >>
> >> From: Ken and Tracie
> >> Sent: Thursday, 01 December, 2011 12:36
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive
> >> I have a negative showing 1614 and 1646 on a fantrip. I believe I
> posted on
> >> this list some time ago. If you search this list's photo archive, you
> may
> >> find it. If not, I can check my stored digital files or scan it again.
> >>
> >> K.
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Herb Brannon"
> >> To:
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:28 PM
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways Photo Archive
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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 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"
> >>>> To:
> >>>> 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