SPF help needed: 1925 depot paint scheme

[MichaelWinicki]

Yep.  Under water - in the 90-100' range of the Allegheny Reservoir.   

If you follow PRR history back far enough, "Ludlow", PA was originally "Kinzua".   Ludlow was on the P&E east and south of Warren, Kinzua was east and northeast a bit.   That was only between about 1865 and 1880 though.    If you research railroad block signal history, you'll find out that one of the very first installations was at "Kinzua", but the diagrams and track charts are all wrong - it was at what is now Ludlow.

Kinzua was also a junction with the PRR "Westline" branch that was leased to and operated by Central Pennsylvania Lumber.  That was one of the screwier scheduled passenger operations as well, like one day a week if you look at a 1950's Official Guide.   Photos show you rode in a caboose converted from a boxcar.  That PRR branch shows on a lot of system maps without explanation - at one time it kept on going east toward Bradford as a 3' line in the oil boom era and was later standard-gauged on the remaining portions for logging railroad use.

Wasn't there another PRR branch that came off the "Westline" branch and went to Bradford?

[randgust]

Here's an 'outside' shot that shows the color better - and where I'm at.

I'm still good with the color, remember it's supposed to be a relatively new, 1925  paint job - not faded.



Mike, to answer your Westline question -  see Pietrak's WNYP book page 6-10 to 6-11.  It was narrow gauged, absorbed into WNYP, abandoned, and then the Westline-Kinzua section was standard gauged and leased to Central Pennsylvania Lumber, but still operated as a common-carrier on the PRR map. 

There's a bunch of shots on the Denver Public Library website taken by Bob Richardson of this operation that have not been published elsewhere.

Here's another historic post to try to straighten the mess out and explain how a Shay was running on PRR: 
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=130&t=154987#p1251455