It's 1948. Trolleys are going out; Kodak Ektachrome slide film is coming in. Here we have a rare color picture of a Wilkes-Barre Transit trolley at the end of the Hanover Line in Hanover Township.* This car was built by Brill about 1923. Note the Gibbons Beer ad on the front. The railroad at the right is probably the Hanover/Newport Branch of the Lackawanna RR. The "Stop Look, Listen" sign is an early 1900s artifact. Looming in the background is the Truesdale Colliery, named after a Lackawanna RR President. The scene also shows the wild overgrowth, typical of the area, that occurs on unused land. Around the time the pictures on this site were taken, my father worked for Wilkes-Barre Transit, probably as an electrician or mechanic. It was the last job he had before heading off to Georgetown U. *Hanover Twp is not to be confused with the City of Hanover in Southern PA near the MD Border. After the English fashion, the township is a 36-square-mile area that includes several small "boroughs," among them Sugar Notch, Ashley, Warrior Run and Askam.