Could someone ID this location?
Fred W. Schneider III
fschnei at supernet.com
Fri Aug 4 16:29:10 EDT 2000
It can best be described as a picture of a car; there is so little
background as to make the location virtually irrelevant. The picture is
one of those that virtually cries out, "I was taken by Charlie Dengler."
Charlie never believed in background unless he was sitting in the back of
an interurban taking pictures out the rear window to show sidings, which he
did on most of the West Penn routes. Otherwise, he took pictures of cars
... cars in Pittsburgh, cars in Wheeling, cars on the West Penn. When he
took cars, it was purely accidentally if the negative showed more than 1/4
inch of background on either side. Charlie was a letter carrier, who
allegedly carried a 616 folding camera and tripod in his mailbag. I've
been told that, if he saw a car he had not previously photographed, out
would come the camera and tripod and he would take several pictures ... one
for his file and the rest to trade off. If have never seen any Pittsburgh
area Dengler pictures taken on fantrips, therefore, if CJD is the
photographer, you can bet this picture was taken on route 65 or enroute to
or from the assigned car house.
Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, mrb190 wrote:
>
> > http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/pitt621.htm
>
> Based on the destination sign, the appearance of a second track in the
> background, and an uncluttered horizon, a passing siding up the hill on
> the 65 line; I can't say which or even if that's right.
>
> -D
More information about the Pittsburgh-railways
mailing list