Location anyone?
brathke at juno.com
brathke at juno.com
Sun Mar 26 10:14:12 EST 2000
Pete Roehm was involved with PERC in the early (1950's) days of the
museum at Arden. I have a number of his railroad photos(most are
well-documented with location info), and they're on the Fallen Flags
website. The last I heard, he was living in the Boston area.
Bob 3/26
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 08:44:49 -0500 "Dietrich, Robert J."
<bob.dietrich at unisys.com> writes:
>I don't think Bill knows either, his caption reads -- 1463 at unknown
>location July 11, 1957.
>Peter Roehm photo.
>Does anyone know Peter Roehm?
>
>Derrick; can you digitally enhance it???
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Donald Galt [mailto:galtfd at att.net]
>Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 10:34 PM
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: Location anyone?
>
>Has anybody bothered to ask Bill Volkmer? The photo is from his
>collection, and he is probably able to make out something of the
>destination
>
>sign.
>
>Going by the maps:
>
>The car is apparently just beginning to turn right from the line it
>has just
>
>come up. And it's a left-hand loop to the right of the line. That cuts
>down
>the
>field considerably.
>
>Woods Run:
>Distinct possibility. Flat route, with a hill behind. That would be
>Woods
>Run
>Avenue in the background, just having turned left (i.e. to our right)
>to
>continue on.
>
>Only one problem: namely, if the mud track we see in the foreground is
>a
>street, since the map shows nothing such. But if the street is
>actually to
>our right, where the man is standing by the signpost, then that would
>be
>Central Avenue. Virtually everything else seems to jibe.
>
>Don G
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