Rt. 53 and Maps

[Jim Holland]

Greetings, Fred!

	I shall be glad to work with you on this!  Let me look through my files
this weekend for the company - I should then contact them next week to
see that they are still in business!  Then we can make arrangements for
shipping the film with insurance and possibly registered to guarantee
delivery!

Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In answer to Jim Holland on the footage I have it is all in one reel.  I will
> be happy to send it out if you would like.  By the way, if any of you don't
> have Jim's video on Pittsburgh that was put together some years ago, you
> should!
> 
> To Bill V. -  I will take a look at the film and see what the headsign is.
> The flying fraction is long gone at this point.  As I remember the tunnel was
> still being used
> at this point with the cars taking that sharp left (outbouind) from the
> tunnel along the prw up to street level and then Warrington Ave.  By watching
> it I can put it all back together.  One of the lines at that point, I believe
> 49 Beltzhoover was using the single
> track up Warrington from Carson.
> 
> There was another Pitrtsburgh map,  done by the ERA.about June of 1949.  Data
> same from R. Sexon, W.A. James, J.G. Kneiling, and Charlie Dengler.  It says
> it was the second edition.  My copy is from a stone age vintage copy machine.
>  If anyone can find a copy it is worth getting and I would like a good copy
> of it or an original if it can be found.
> 
> The PTM map drawn by Mac  McGraw is a super map and everytime you buy one you
> help the museum a wee bit.
> 
> Fred Bruhn

James B. Holland
------- -- ---------
        Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
    To e-mail *off-list,* please click here: mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net
N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190; http://www.mcs.net:80/~weyand/nmra/