Where is this place?

[W. Gray]

Anyone care to guess where this place is?

[frawin]

Waldo, my best guess is Moline. I know that Moline had several sets of tracks running thru town. Also Moline had several different Trains that came thru there it different times of the day and Night.I remember that Merl Stiles was the engineer out of Moline and so was the unforgettable Bobby Jones. In my day I don't remember any other Elk county town having that many tracts or Trains.

[Diane Amberg]

It must be Ghost Mountain since I don't see a thing.

[W. Gray]

Waldo, my best guess is Moline. I know that Moline had several sets of tracks running thru town. Also Moline had several different Trains that came thru there it different times of the day and Night.I remember that Merl Stiles was the engineer out of Moline and so was the unforgettable Bobby Jones. In my day I don't remember any other Elk county town having that many tracts or Trains.

Frank, since you were guessing, would this photo of the same place change your mind?

[Diane Amberg]

Now I see a good looking train.Thanks! I still don't know where it is of course, but I have a nice photo to look at.

[frawin]

Waldo, I think it is Longton, I know Longton had Trains and a Station at one time, the other thing that makes me think it is Longton, is that I know there was a Refinery there at one time and the
Oil Refined there came in by Train. If I am wrong , whatever answer you give me will go in my History of Elk County Files that I keep. Unfortunately, up until you aroused me on this , I had not researched Trains in Elk County.

[Bullwinkle]

       I think you were right the first time, Frank. I can see an M and an E on the water tower and it looks like Moline on the depot.

[frawin]

Bullwinkle, we will see, it is interesting for Waldo to post all of this. I have always loved Elk County History and most especially Howard History. I used to spend a lot of time in Hottingers old Drugstore. It hafdn't been Drugstore since the early 40s but he and his wife went there 6 days a week. It was more like a Musiem of Howard. After he and his wife passed away, Tables were setup in the street and everything was auctioned off. I bought some old Picture Scrapbooks that were full of Picture of Howard from the late 1800s to around 1940. Some guy ran the bid up high on me but I was determined to get them. I get them out every so often and  look at them. I will try to post some on the Forum.
Bullwinkle, since you said you knew my Brother Bob, I have been wondering who you are, would you please PM me and let me know who you are. Curiosity is killing me.

[frawin]

I understand, I was pretty sure it was Moline as it was the Main Hub for the Railroad there. My wife and I looked at it and she said that could be Longton as there were tracks at Longton and a lot of Train traffic due to the Refinery there. My wife said she thought it was Longton so I posted that answer for her.

[W. Gray]

This is Moline.

A lot of changes over time including that long brick building at the northwest corner of US 160 and Main coming from the west, which burned down in a colossal fire, when? 60s? 70s?

A small white prefab building is there now housing city hall

A new water tower was built at about where the elevator is and the old tower torn down.

And, maybe the biggest change of all, to some, that is not in the picture. That being of the movie theater across from the old water tower becoming a coin operated laundry biz, which I dont think is operating.

Also, there is something unique in this picture concerning the railroad that I will talk about in another post.