[PRCo] Re: HAVE YOU SEEN THESE?

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

Well you guys just zeroed in on the time frame for my junction. I've been
shooting for the early fifties, but you're telling me it must be Fall 1952
or later.  I only have the inbound track in my module, and I have no
intention of adding the outbound track.  

Now come up with some more information about the roads and parking lots
around the back of the administration building.  What was cobblestone? Was
anything redbrick?  How much was gravel?  When did it get paved with
Allegheny Asphalt? 

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You are correct, Sir, and the "back track" was removed following
discontinuation of loop storage service for the Allegheny County Fair
cars about 1952..

Had the photo been taken from a vantage point 30-feet on up the PRW the
manual turnout for the loop would've been recorded in the photo.
A locking device was installed on the manual turnout around 1948
preventing playful culprits from diverting normal routing cars to the
loop, (especially during the evening rush hour).
Was I responsible for a lock being installed on that manual "flip over"
switch? I believe it was late afternoon the suummer of 1947, when the
operator of an outbound 44 Knoxville low floor found himself ploughing
down weeds and hearing the arcing on the overhead.....   
.
One of the listers



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Good Morning!!

> John F Bromley wrote:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1181309371

ROBERT---DIETRICH   ---   this photo clearly shows the turnouts into the
outbound track from the back track behind the admin building.   I have
photos which show this turnout about 1952.   My suspicion is that this
was removed  *sometime*  after the interurbans were cutback late summer
of 1953.
	Remember the personal story from one of the listers on how
interurbans
would be store on the loop under the 44//48--lines?   My  *suspicion* 
is that the equipment left the yard and went up the back track to that
loop to minimize disruptions thru SHJ proper!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1181344805

	I have an almost identical JPEG that I got from somewhere on the web

--  truck behind the car is in a slightly different position.   And I
also have an Harold A. Smith photo, #PI--0166, of the same car probably
at the other end of the line!!!!!!!

> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1180164427

> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1180142432

> One each, no reprints available

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James B. Holland

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