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Yesterday the year long desire to get the drainage on the driveway at the Farmhouse up here on Hickory Ridge.  On Friday I received this load of rocks.   Kevin was bringing his Bobcat and his Dad's dump truck to PTM to locate water lines at the along Trolley Street and arrived early in the morning to come to our place to put in some needed drainage.  We met for breakfast at the Pike Inn at 8:30 and got to the  Farmhouse around 9:30.   The dig started over at the corner of the left garage door and water pipe and worked its way along the driveway to where a cast iron pipe full of mud was located.  There the ditch turned under the driveway so that the pipes could outflow onto the lower lawn.  From there it will head for the ditch next to the road.  At least that was the plan.        Sarah Doug and Laura looking on as Kevin does his thng...         ...

Trolley Street construction gets underway Saturday December 21  December 21 the volunteer line crew of Kevin Zebley, Laura Wells, Armand Latour and Larry Lovejoy kicked the construction of into high gear setting poles at Enterprise Wye, named for the one time stop on Washington interurban line at that approximate location.  The stop served the Enterprise mine near this location on the far side of the Pennsylvania railroad track.  That got me thinking about how things changed in this area over the years, both with the construction of the Washington interurban and the Museum. The Enterprise Mine site occupied the valley behind the Washington Country Club.  Along about 1963 it was in the path of Interstate 79 and was largely obliterated with the construction of the highway.  The Penn Pilot website (pennpilot.psu.edu) provides a 1939 aerial view of the area shown here.  I excerpted a section of this photo for this page and marked it up with pho...

I worked as dispatcher on Sunday (December 15).  It was a cold grey day so I walked around a lot and drank a bunch of Dave Wood's Army coffee.  In the photo below Santa and Elf wave goodbye to PTM as Santa goes back to the North Pole for another year. We had a visit from the granddaughters.  They were fascinated by the shop mezzanine, so Laura showed them around up there. The random photo selector picked out a couple of classic photos from the Bill James archive to test your powers of observation in locations.  The lower one is supposed to be the photo on the next Support-a-Trolley page.  I finished the latest issue of Trolley Fare and Mailingirl is getting them to the Post Office today. Here's the link to the latest issue which is Summer 2019.  Quality isn't always timely... https://pa-trolley.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/2019.3-TFare-online-%C6%92.pdf

 Thursday I finally had time to trim the new advertising signs that I had made for 4398 and then got them installed in the holders on the end of the car.  Fort Pitt Beer is on end (#2) Friday it was rainy but we still had some visitors for the Trolleys & Toy Trains Day.  Last Friday for this season. I spent part of my week fixing the threshold on the #1 end of New Orleans 832

66 is the Santa Trolley!  The Family poses with Santa Then we took the ride to the South Pole and which is evidently the Post Office for Santa letters .  The Zebley Family was all there for the ride.  Michelle and the Kids were there to see the letter go to Santa. Nicole (Postmaster) and Nancy pose beside the mailbox