SHJ Web Page

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Not a place I'd really feel comfortable visiting today!

mrb190 wrote:

> http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/pitt568.jpg
>
> This is actually a 71 Negley outbound on Negley Ave. about to cross Penn Ave.
> This was our ticket to Highland Park Zoo.  We'd transfer from an 88
> Frankstown(which we would have boarded at 40th & Penn in Lawrenceville) at this
> very point.
>
> Matt
>
> "Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:
>
> > Jim:
> >
> > Thanks for the comments on the web page.
> >
> > The outbound track to 44-48 Arlington from the back track was apparently
> > removed in the early '50s.  Refer to
> > http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/outback.htm taken in the '60s.  I have
> > other photos from the '50s showing this configuration.
> >
> > The traffic lights was only one, the other thing is a control box of some
> > sort.  Here you can see it in operation
> > http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/sidebw.htm in the '20s, and in the
> > summer of '72 http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/cd2.htm the light as
> > gone but the box remains.  So how long did this light remain hanging on the
> > pole and not used?  Was it used then the junction was controlled manually
> > from the switch tower and not after the interlocking controls were
> > incorporated in 1939?  Or were they used after that?  And when was it
> > removed from the pole?  The range of these two pictures is from 1947 to
> > 1972.
> >
> > As you said car 1781 was not 1630, my mistake.  I went back to the photo I
> > have and on the back, along with your name, it states that 1781 was
> > ex-interurban 1646.  I'll make the correction.
> >
> > The dark roof on 1062 -- http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/cr1000.htm --
> > could the car be over six months old at this point, or six days?  Then it
> > could be "weathered".  Remember Fred's mom's curtains.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > From:   Jim Holland [mailto:PGHPCC at pacbell.net]
> > Sent:   Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:46 PM
> > To:     pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > Subject:        Re: SHJ Web Page
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> >         Very interesting, Bob; I can see this was alot of work and it is
> > very
> > much appreciated.
> >
> >         Look closely at the background in this photo and you can see that
> > the
> > back track behind the admin building *does* connect to both tracks
> > leading to Warrington - http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/cr3700.htm
> > - look right in front of the low floor car there.
> >
> >         Bob:  Another detail: in this photo, notice the two traffic signals
> > just to the left (from our vantage point) of the car
> > http://www.voicenet.com/~dietrich/SHJ/bv13.jpg.  I had noticed these, or
> > one of these, before - am *guessing* it was to control traffic from the
> > interurban or from 38-39-40-42 lines inbound and to allow OB cars to the
> > interurbans to pass!
> >
> >         http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/jpg/pitt568.jpg  possibly
> > inbound
> > on Centre at Liberty???
> >
> >         Car 1630 http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/JH1781.JPG was never
> > accepted by ({[pat]}), was never run by ({[pat]}), and was never
> > converted to a double ender.  Additionally, 1630 was not an interurban.
> >
> >         This photo http://www.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/cr1000.htm  hints at
> > a
> > dark color, possibly black, for the canvas portion of the roof only.
> >
> > James B. Holland
> >
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