Finleyville not Canonsburg

[Bob Rathke]

I enjoy viewing these "Mystery" photos and testing my memory to try to
identify the locations, but I get irritated with the website photo captions
that are way off base.  In the past I have had some of my photos put on
websites with postage-stamp size images and limited/no captions; although I
provided detailed, accurate captions, the screen captions often came up
wrong.  That's why in 1998 I decided to upload my photos to the Fallen Flags
website.  The photos there START with a caption, then link to the
screen-size photo.  The website owner, George Elwood, is serious about
accuracy, and he'll question any photo or caption that seems to be
incorrect; he will also run lengthy captions for you, and he readily makes
changes in captions if the photo provider requests them.  Unfortunately, his
website has been mainly railroad subjects, although he started a light
rail/trolley page at my request.  But there's hope: in 1997 the Fallen Flags
website was primarily about the Erie-Lackawanna RR, with a small "Other RR"
page for all others. By 1999 he had 200+ railroads listed alphabetically,
and they're now much larger than the original E-L website that started it
all.

Bob 4/1

------Original Message------
From: Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: March 31, 2000 3:19:26 AM GMT
Subject: Re: Finleyville  not  Canonsburg


Greetings!

Unfortunately and all too often, the photo credits are not at all
correct.  I have purchased a vast number of PRCo photos from a variety
of photographers  a-n-d  because I purchased them, I do not at all feel
free to post them on the internet.  I can identify the original source
for many of those photos on these sites and 75% or better are just
listed as *from-the-collection-of.*  Don't think that is at all fair.
This particular photo I recognize from a PTM calendar and also *PCC
from Coast to Coast* where proper credit was given in both cases.
Would you mind sending a *now* photo of this location to Derrick so he
might put it on the website?  Won't be back that way for a while!

Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> I just shot a "now" photo of the same location for our new exhibit at the
> Museum.  It's most definitely the intersection of Route 88 and Marion
> Avenue, Finleyville.  Photo credit should be to Edward S. Miller.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> [mailto:owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org]On Behalf Of Jim Holland
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 9:53 PM
> To: PRCo -- WP -- JTC -- The Big *3* --
> Subject: Finleyville not Canonsburg

> Greetings!

>         This URL http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp116.htm is
of
> 1714 heading to Roscoe thru Charleroi in Finleyville and crossing route
> 88!  Bill lists it as Canonsburg on the Washington line.  This appeared
> in a recent PTM calendar.

> James B. Holland
> ------- -- ---------
>         Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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James B. Holland
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