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[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

> Dave,
> 
> Regarding the John Froyd Collection of photos now on the internet, I can
> offer the following additions and corrections to the locations.
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> Photo #5   Narrowness of the street suggests Elsworth Avenue ... only
> tentative.

To my eyes it looks closer to the end of the line in Wilkinsburg.
Probably because of closeness of buildings. If I get
time before I leave town I'll look, but you're probably right.

12: old Ellsworth Avenue bridge?

18: Carson, looks to be near 30th.

> Photo #25  For starters, I'd look on Fifth Avenue in Oakland for those
> buildings

see, this one looks like ellsworth to me


> Photo #27  Talbot St. Loop, Braddock

looks like 26 is this when i go through

and 27 is what you call 28?

> Photo #28  I try driving down Elsworth Avenue in Shadyside to see if any
> of the buildings match.

28 i see is at forbes and wilkins

> Photo #29  Hamilton at Oakwood, City of Pittsburgh.  Car is not going
> into Tioga Loop but is running through to Jane Street in Wilkinsburg
> Borough.

and we agree on 29. weird.

> Photo #39 - possibly Braddock Avenue in East Pittsburgh.  Note the PRR
> bridge.

Nil, Union RR bridge. It's Electric at Braddock

49 is next to St. James Church in Wilkinsburg, one block back is Franklin,
the street crossing at the photographer is Rebecca, and I can't remember
what street the tracks are on.

> Photo #52  I think this might be on Forbes Avenue looking out of Frick
> Park toward Braddock Ave.

it is

> Photo #71 - Not at Knoxville.  Knoxville is on top of the hill.  This is
> on Arlington Avenue at Carson St.  See photo #53 which looks the other
> way.

Is it? Sure looks like over by Pennsylvania Station to me.


> Photo #89 was in Wilkinsburg Borough.

Ardmore at Brinton/Marlboro

109: the safety island is still there!

110: Looks like First and Middle not Maple and Middle, based on the sign!

115: would that be on PA130 crossing PA48, headed for Trafford, then?

122: must be on Braddock Avenue toward Braddock from the Westinghouse
Bridge, the multilane divided area starting about where the road curves
behind the PCC

123: Edgewood Avenue in Swissvale, I think. Might be in Edgewood but I
think the boundary is where the pavement changes behind the car. 

125: I remember seeing this, I was sad when it was gone

> Photo #127 is inbound on Ardmore Blvd just west of the Penn Lincoln
> Parkway (called the Parkway East in today's lingo).

Brinton Rd/Marlboro intersection

> Photo #134 - it is not easy to define East Liberty; it is simple a
> neighborhood within the City of Pittsburgh.  However, I think there
> might be some agreement that route 76 skirted East Liberty to the east.

This is Fifth at Neville. Craig is one block back, where the PNB is.

> Photo #140 - Edgar Thompson Works, U. S. Steel Company, abbreviated ET
> is in Braddock.

Well, that trackage might well be in East Pittsburgh, I think it's on the
now-closed stretch of Braddock Avenue down by the floodgates. They closed
it so they could move a rail spur into the middle of the flood gate
basically. So now the street is closed. Bleah.

-D