[From nobody Mon Jan 14 08:17:52 2013 Received: from mailsorter-101-6.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.40) by storefull-168.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:28:58 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <shadow+bounces@dementia.org> Received: from alycia.dementia.org (ALYCIA.DEMENTIA.ORG [128.2.35.149]) by mailsorter-101-6.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) with ESMTP id QAA28004; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:28:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by alycia.dementia.org (8.9.1a/8.9.0) id TAA17780 for pittsburgh-railways-outgoing; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:25:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from m2.boston.juno.com (m2.boston.juno.com [205.231.101.199]) by alycia.dementia.org (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id TAA17776 for <pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org>; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:25:28 -0500 (EST) From: brathke@juno.com Received: from cookie.juno.com by cookie.juno.com for <"yogH9BgZzLT8KQB8D7gHujEL2uFn3OIpVCs99pWTrAygu30CEhVXUQ=="> Received: (from brathke@juno.com) by m2.boston.juno.com (queuemail) id EZ7PB4BP; Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:36:24 EST To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 17:32:32 -0600 Subject: Re: This Last Week Message-ID: <20000302.173300.15414.1.brathke@juno.com> References: <19872-38BDF2AC-2050@storefull-164.iap.bryant.webtv.net> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0-1,6-10,12-65 Sender: owner-pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways@dementia.org Bob, PCC's operated out of Craft Avenue CB until early in the morning of January 27, 1967. A couple of weeks ago I shared some recollections of the last evening of East End trolleys, and mentioned that at about 4AM that day I took some photos of two PCCs (1546 and 1561) with Stadium-Forbes Field signs being transferred out of Craft. Bob 3/2 ---------------------------------------------- On Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:48:44 -0500 (EST) SaturnV@webtv.net (Robert Schmidt) writes: > >--WebTV-Mail-8768-1139 >Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > >Welcome aboard, Carl: > >I see that the Homewood Shops were your stomping ground for a short >period of time. >Lots of activity from a very extensive maintenance operation and some >interesting car building at that location. Don't you wish you could go >back again, but with one of those current high definition cameras? >Betcha there's little argument here amongst the troops! > >The Craft Avenue car house, small by carbarn standards, was situated >in >an interesting localion immediately behind Magee-Women's Hospital >between Forbes Ave. and Boulevard of the Allies. Its yard was to the >West of, and adjacent to, the hospital. > >As I service the hospital presently in my line of work I often find >myself gazing at the very parcel of land that was once a busy hub of >trolley activity in the Oakland area. and which I passed on route to >Duquesne Gardens where our gang headed every Saturday for the matinee >ice skating session during the Winter seasons of the late 40's. > >Presently, when standing at the Craft Avenue entrance-driveway to the >hospital's new annex building receiving dock, I'm standing at a spot >on >the sidewalk where a ten ft. high red brick boundry wall skirted the >Craft Ave. side of the yard which ran parallel with Craft Ave. from >Forbes to the Boulevard of the Allies. > >The yard track immediately adjacent to that wall stored about eight >cars >and which, due to the height of the wall, allowed only the upper few >feet of car body to be viewed. It was enough to identify just what was >parked on the other side of that wall. > >This particular track was used for storage of several McGuire Sweepers >and a High Floor 4100 series car or two used for towing/scraper duty. >The balance of rolling stock comprised a mix of low-floor cars with a >more prominent inventory of PCC's. > >I was given several autographed transfers from the final PCC trip that >operated out of the Craft Ave. Car House (53-54?) by Millvale >resident, >and operator of that car, Larry Schuster, a few months before he >'transferred out' on his FINAL route. Just a bit of rail nostalgia for >the sentimental at heart. > >Bob Schmidt ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ]