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ALVERY 51 CHESTNUT AVE HILL JUNIATA.jpg (79303 bytes) August 7, 1954, the last ride for the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway (David Seidel was on board one of the cars). This is car No. 51 on east Chestnut Avenue nearing Juniata.  By Paul W. Westbrook ALVERY 35 BRILL 1914.jpg (45587 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Car No. 35. Not assigned to any particular division. Built by Brill 1914. Ex-U.S. Gov't Hog Island car, Philadelphia, Pa., Date of photo: 8-54. At Altoona car barn. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased
ALVERY 102 BRILL EX-OIL CITY FAIRVIEW.jpg (37962 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car No. 102, used on the hilly Fairview division. Built by Brill. Ex-Oil City, Pa. Street Ry. 90 series.  Date of Photo: 8-54.  Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. alvery 139 CINCINNATI CAR FOUNDRY 19111.jpg (72247 bytes) A&LVERy Car No. 139 Built by the Cincinnati Car and Foundry in 1911.   Location: Altoona car barn. Date of photo: 8-54.  Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY 170 BRILL 1914 TYRONE RUN.jpg (51742 bytes) A&LVERy Car No. 170. An Interurban type car used on the 15 mile run to Tyrone. The Tyrone run was abandoned 4/1/38. Built by Brill 1914. Ex-U.S. Gov't Hog Island, Philadelphia, Pa. ALVERY 503 SNOWPLOW TOUNTON LOCO CO 1902.jpg (35205 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway snowplow # 503. Built by Tounton Locomotive Co., 1902. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY 516 BLT Co Shops 1912 BRILL TRUCKS.jpg (34972 bytes) A&LVERy work car no. 516. Built in Logan Valley shops 1912. Brill Trucks.  8-7-54.  Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased ALVERY 517 ca 1900 home blt BRILL Trucks.jpg (41090 bytes) A&LVERy work car No. 517. This car was used as a switcher in the car barn yards. Built in the Logan Valley Shops in 1900. Brill Trucks.  8-7-54  Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY 59 OSGOOD BRADLEY 1925.jpg (36640 bytes) A&LVERy CAR No. 59. Osgood Bradley built in 1925. Used on 2nd, 3rd, 8th and Broad Avenue routes. Also used on the  Hollidaysburg division before the last run (8-7-54). This photo is from the end of the Broad Avenue division. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. ALVERY 70 ON 12TH AVE AT 11TH ST ALTOONA.jpg (108484 bytes) August 7, 1954, Last Run of the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway. Altoona area residents, David Seidel included, boarding excursion cars at the corner of 12th Avenue and 11th Street in downtown, Altoona. This corner at that time was the central pickup point and place to transfer routes. The old A&LVERy office was opposite where photographer is standing.
View of Osgood Bradley car turning from 11th Avenue onto Bridge Street. Venetian Gardens restaurant/ballroom on extreme right. Circa 1950's. Photographer unknown. Collection of David Seidel. End of the line. Operator is Wilbur Libold. Photographer unknown. Collection of David Seidel.
ALVERY 8-7-54 DOWNTOWN ALTOONA.jpg (40760 bytes) Last run of Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway in downtown Altoona moving west on 11th Avenue, 8-7-54. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. ALVERY 8-7-54 LAKEMONT PARK.jpg (54575 bytes) Last run of the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway. Car No. 70, headed south passing Lakemont Park, enroute to Hollidaysburg, Pa, the county seat. Lakemont Park had its origins with the trolley line predecessor company as a place for area residents to travel to for entertainment. The open-side "Park" cars were popular at the turn of the century. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY CAR 519 RUSSELL CAR CO 1912 RIDGWAY PA.jpg (26243 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car No. 519. Used for rail hauling. Built by Russell Car Co, Ridgeway, Pa in 1912. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. ALVERy CAR 72 AT CARBARN 1950s.jpg (32707 bytes) A&LVERy Car No.71.  Photo date: 8-7-54 at Altoona Car Barn. This car was used on the Eldorado Division. Built by the Osgood Bradley Co., in 1929. An all-steel light weight car. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY CAR BARN.jpg (6798 bytes)

Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway carbarn view. Photographer unknown. Date unknown. Collection of David Seidel

 ALVERY CAR NO 159 STEPHENSON 1903.jpg (34642 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car No. 159. Had hand-operated doors. Not assigned to any particular division. built by Stephenson in 1903.  Photo date: 1954. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERy CARBARN AREA 8-54.jpg (60993 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car barn, Altoona, Pa., 8-7-54. the day of the last ride excursions. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. ALVERY CARBARN AREA 8-7-54.jpg (45113 bytes)

Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car barn area 8-7-54, date of the "last run" excursions. Automobile at left: 1950 Buick. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY CROSSING PRR BRANCH.jpg (15149 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway crossing bridge over PRR branch line between Altoona and Hollidaysburg on private right of way south of Broad Avenue. This right of way was paved after the line abandonment and connects Broad/Beale avenues with Logan Blvd. Photographer unknown. Collection of David Seidel. ALVERY EARLY BUS.jpg (28584 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway early bus. Date, location, make of bus unknown. Photographer unknown.
ALVERY EH JCT 8-7-54.jpg (37166 bytes) The Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway last run on 8-7-54. Location: E&H Jct. where Hollidaysburg and Eldorado Divisions met (at Logan Blvd & 5th Avenue), Altoona. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. ALVERY ELDORADO DIV CARS.jpg (11588 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Osgood Bradley cars used on the Eldorado Division. Pictured at the car barn. Photographer unknown. David Seidel collection.
ALVERY INBOUND FROM HOLLIDAYSBURG AT NAZARETH STOP.jpg (17687 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car No. 51 inbound from Hollidaysburg stopped at Nazareth (this is the Garvey Manor location today). Date and photographer unknown. David Seidel collection. ALVERY INBOUND FROM HOLLIDAYSBURG AT NAZARETH STOP-2.jpg (14293 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway Car No. 51 inbound from Hollidaysburg. Nazareth stop (now site of Garvey Manor Nursing Home). This is a second view. Date and photographer unknown. David Seidel collection.
ALVERY LAKEMONT PARK AREA.jpg (18707 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car No. 51 inbound to Altoona from Hollidaysburg, at Lakemont Park...an amusement park developed by the trolley company circa 1900. Photographer unknown. David Seidel collection. ALVERy LAST RUN 8-7-54 JUNIATA.jpg (45624 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway at end-of-the-line in Juniata just outside the Juniata shop gate (of PRR's largest locomotive erecting & repairing shops).  The occasion was the "last ride",  8-7-54. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY LINE CAR 505 STEPHENSON 1905.jpg (34136 bytes)

Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway car No. 505. Line car, built by Stephenson in 1905. Date of Photo: 1954.  Photograph by Paul w. Westbrook 

 ALVERY SWEEPER 502 McGUIRE CUMMINGS 1904.jpg (33107 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway sweeper No. 502, built by McGuire Cummings in 1904. Date of photo 8-54.  by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased.
ALVERY NO 141 tURTLE ROOF BRILL 1914 JUNIATA EALT DIV.jpg (45861 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway No. 141. Used on Juniata & East Altoona Division. It had a turtle roof and was built by Brill in 1914. Photo dated 1954. Photo by Paul W. Westbrook, deceased. August 7, 1954. Motormen of the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway. Names unknown. Photographer unknown. Collection of David Seidel
ALVERy TOKEN.jpg (2932 bytes) Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway ride token. Collection of David Seidel. ALVERy UNION AGREEMENT.jpg (28799 bytes) Copy of A&LVERY Union Agreement. "Agreement between Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway Company and Division 801 of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America."  Date not indicated. Collection of David Seidel.
alvery22.jpg (32775 bytes)  Collection of David Seidel.  Photo of Birney car at Fairview School (end-of-line) on 22nd Avenue at 4th Street, Altoona, Pa. Photo courtesy of Mr. Homer Benton.       
ALVERy 9TH ST ALTOONA VIEW N TO HOWARD AVE.jpg (31170 bytes) This is a 1980's view during a street re-surfacing project. View north on 9th street toward Howard avenue, indicating the right of way for the Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway which discontinued operation some 30 years previous. Photo by David Seidel. ALVERy TRACKS 11TH AVE ALTOONA VIEW W FROM 12TH ST.jpg (22480 bytes) Altoona, Pa., circa 1980's street re-surfacing project in Altoona in main business district (11th Avenue, view west from 12th St) which revealed old A&LVERy right of way. Photo by David Seidel
ALVERy TRACKS 9TH ST ALTOONA VIEW S FROM HOWARD AVE.jpg (36426 bytes)

Altoona street resurfacing project in 1980's. Ninth street view south from Howard Avenue showing the old right of way. Photo by David Seidel.

 A&LVERy BROAD AVE ALTOONA 10-99.jpg (51583 bytes) Resurfacing of Broad Avenue, Altoona, PA, exposed the brick work (minus rails) of the former right of way.  10-99  By David Seidel
walters_1.jpg (55634 bytes) Altoona 7 Logan Valley Electric Railway service truck No. 18, a 1946 Walter Snow Fighter. This truck was restored in 1998 by the Horseshoe Curve Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. Truck has a nose plow, and a center-body scraper blade. Pictured l-r: Francis X. Givler, President, Horseshoe Curve Chapter, Leonard Alwine, Chapter expert on A&LVERY history and equipment, and Chapter V.P. Joe Harella and employee of AMTRAN (Altoona Metropolitan Transit Authority, successor to the A&LVERY). Photo by David Seidel, Chapter Historian. ALVERY SVC TRUCK 18 AT OLD CARBARN 1999.jpg (8776 bytes)

Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway service truck No. 18 re-visiting the old car barn May, 1999 enroute to Altoona sesquicentennial parade. This truck, a 1946 Walter Snow Fighter is now owned by the Horseshoe Curve Chapter, National Railway Historical Society. The car barn building in the background has been converted to a bus garage for Altoona Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMTRAN). The structure is original but is now a flat-roof building rather than a peaked open air building. The triangle building sign is also original and is dated 1902. Photo by David Seidel.
Photo taken 12-18-1990 when the video tape, The Altoona Trolley story was issued by the Horseshoe Curve Chapter, NRHS. In this photograph, a copy of the tape was presented to Phil Fry, General Manager, Altoona Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMTRAN). Left to right: Dick Heiler, producer of the Master tape for Horseshoe Curve Chapter, David Seidel, Horseshoe Curve Chapter Historian and project committee person; Phil Fry, General Manager, AMTRAN, and Leonard Alwine, Horseshoe Curve Chapter specialist on the history of the predecessor Altoona and Logan Valley Electric Railway. AMTRAN TROLLEY BUS 173 6-7-00 B.jpg (82817 bytes) Photo of AMTRAN (Altoona Metropolitan Transportation Authority)  Trolley Bus No. 173, shown at Horseshoe Curve 6-7-00. This "special occasion" vehicle of Altoona Metropolitan Transportation Authority replicates the paint them of the predecessor Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway. Photo by David Seidel.
CREA AIKENS AMTRAN TROLLEY BUS 6-7-00 B.jpg (77595 bytes) Photo of Mr. Crea Aikens, AMTRAN (Altoona Metropolitan Transportation Authority) employee, operator of AMTRAN trolley bus # 173 on June 7, 00 at Horseshoe Curve National Historic Site. Mr. Aikens operated a special charter to the Horseshoe Curve on this occasion.  Photo by David Seidel INTERIOR AMTRAN 173 6-7-00.jpg (87618 bytes)  Interior view of AMTRAN (Altoona Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Trolley bus No. 173. This "special occasion" vehicle replicates the exterior paint theme of predecessor Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway; note the "belt line" logo of the Altoona & Logan Valley Electric Railway etched in the glass panel on left. Photo by David Seidel.