Monessen Junction

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Don Galt wrote:
> 
> But, then, Lockview station was on the hillside right smack above Old Lock
> 4, and just north of the Lock 4 School. Yet my maps show Lockview itself
> farther up the road (and, undeniably, more remote from the interurban
> line.)

	Many times I have noticed that *stop names* seem to have no relationship to the immediate 
surroundings, but can't come up with a good example right now.

> Were there stops at Bridge#1, Bridge#2, Bridge#3? Barring these, I see no
> note of any stations between Lockview and Eldora.

	YES - that linear map you have shows stops on the south side of each of the Bridges with 
Bridges #3 and #2 having telephones - the underline shows telephones.

> >From Jim Holland:
> 
> >> I have an absolutely super photo from John Brinckman <<
> 
> Certainly sounds super, from the description.
> 
> Those of you with photographs, of course, are singularly blessed.

	YOU  can purchase these photos as well; there are some super ones out there.  Another 
excellent source of photos are the calendars put out by PTM.  They might have some for 1997 and 1998 
yet but all other back dated calendars are gone.

> Parting shot: what is the location of the photo on the first page of the
> 1944 INL article by Ira Swett, showing a car just beyond a section of
> double track?

	The photo of a 3800 approaching a siding actually *appears to be* entering Brookside siding 
with the car heading south on the Washington line even though the article itself deals only with the 
Charleroi line!!!!!!!  And the snow photo on the page with the map appears to be along Morganza Road 
on the Washington line with the car heading northbound.  If the direction is correct the signal mast 
indicates a location 14 miles south of Pittsburgh which would make Morganza possibly correct.  
Fourteen miles south of Pgh on Charleroi should be north of Lanks yet and that would still be double 
track as Lanks, the beginning of single track on Charleroi, was 16 miles south!  (But it looks like 
the scenery along 88 near Mingo or Crookham on the Charleroi line.)
-- 
James B. Holland
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