4145 and Bloomsburg 1967


Frank Hicks recently shared this fragment of a letter found in a basket of items which Illinois Railway Museum acquired from the Trolleyville USA dispersal in 2009.  The letter was sent from Pennsylvania Railway Museum Association, the organization that was successor to the Pittsburgh Electric Railway Club and predecessor to PTM to Edward Blossom concerning vintage streetcar work cars that might be available for acquisition Pittsburgh.



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