A PRC troop train!

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Harold Geissenheimer wrote:

> Kenneth and Tracie
> 
> Your photo is further east of Oakland near the Carnegie Mellon
> campus on Forbes Ave.  In the neighborhood there was a Bureau of
> Mines Bldg, a naval armory and various Carnegie Mellon Buildings.

I'll comment further when I see the picture, but the building I work in is
where the old "Coal Center" building was; The BOM buildings still standing
have of course since been integrated into the CMU campus, and the most
recent Navy building, also still standing, became part of CMU when the
Navy moved out near Eastland Mall along East Pittsburgh-McKeesport Blvd:
basically a few hundred yards back toward East Pittsburgh from the end of
the Highland Grove Traction "system"

Coal Center is the nearer, "old" building you can see in:
http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/pitt307.jpg
(the other building is Warner Hall)

The "Navy Building" is the building with the odd blue windows you can see
in:
http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/pitt297.jpg
on the other side of the Coal Center building.

One of the BOM buildings still standing can be seen in:
http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/pitt317.jpg
which is further down the street toward Pitt.

I thought there was a shot which was close to what I would see out my
window if there weren't now a parking lot across the street, by I don't
see it in the thumbnails.

Still, there was a time when CMU had much less on-campus housing, and I
assume the streetcars played a large part in the life of students then,
both commuter students and on-campus students who wanted to go elsewhere.

-D