Mrs. Trusty’s great grandfather retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1946. He lived in Dola, Ohio, and the train stopped in his backyard to pick him up for work every day. Chances are good that Grandpa Henry would have known some of the people in the picture below.
The largest feature of the 1922 Dola landscape was the coal tower. The signal tower is to the left of the coal tower. On the right is the Dola train station and the edge of the barber shop/pool room. The telegraph office was just behind the photographer in the picture below.
Based on pictures that I found in the Library of Congress, I have 3D printed the Pennsylvania Railroad stop in Dola as it was in 1922. 3D printed objects include the train station, barber shop & pool room, signal tower, telegraph office and water troughs with support buildings and water tanks. The water troughs were located between Dola and Dunkirk and were used into the 1950s. Railroad workers would keep the troughs full and in the winter build fires along the tracks to keep the water from freezing.
All the structures in these photos are gone. Hopefully the 3D printed versions created for this video will help preserve the history of Dola and the Pennsylvania Railroad.