South Hills Yard -- East Pittsburgh

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Jim Holland wrote:

>         At any rate, the yard appears to have the configuration we know from
> the 50s  e-x-c-e-p-t  the outbound 42-line track is open "T"-rail and
> not paved!  Paving came after the war and maybe as late as 1949; I would
> have to check my photo collection very closely to help to determine
> this.

	I have a B&W photo that Ben Rohrbeck used to sell showing 1136 sitting
on track #1 in the South Hills yard in 1948 and the outbound track of
the 42-line is not paved.
	A later photo showing 1723 as a new car in 1949 shows that this
outbound 42-line track is paved.

	Also, the destination sign on 1136 reads as follows, front and side:

		E. PGH via ARDMORE

James B. Holland
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