Favorite Things Intersections

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Smithfield and Carson.

	Not necessarily my most favorite intersection (many absolutely
fascinating intersections in the East End) but this one is a *skewed*
intersection.

	The tunnel to bridge tracks have a much wider devil strip than anywhere
else on the system.  These tracks also cross Carson at an angle and the
intersection in the latter days lacked being a grand union only because
tracks straight through on Carson did not exist.

	The intersection posed interesting construction problems with the
turnouts on the tunnel side being on a grade.

James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1940  --  1950
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