[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Work Cars Posted on Dave's

[Fred W. Schneider III]

Regarding the four work car prints:

M210 is at Homewood Shops.  M131 might be in the material yard at Castle
Shannon but I can't prove it ... not enough background.  F6 might have
been taken during the 1939 or 1940 NRHS Convention at Charleroi ...
F6,F7,F8 and F9 were the original Washington and Canonsburg interurban
carsd.  F4 was down at the Palm Garden end of Tunnel Yard.  

Others:

4250 ... I would have to go out and check all the buildings ... the
favored location for many years for roster record pictures was on North
Braddock smack dab in the middle of the Bennet Street intersection.
Bennet Street was old PA route 80 into Penn Hills, today I think its
called 380.  They used that location right up through PCC 100 in the
summer of 1936!  I can only imagine the screaming that would go on today
if you blocked that intersection.  It would be almost as bad as blocking
the Parkway East!  At any rate, this is where I think 4250 was taken.

4387 on Carson St. is more correctly on West Carson Street coming up the
ramp to the Point Bridge.  The bridge in the picture is that of the
Pittsburgh and West Virginia railroad.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO BUY A PRINT IF YOU CAN SUPPLY IT.

I've got a gut reaction that the picture of M-1 was taken at Ingram. 
The vine covered fence looks familiar.

Car 4399 posing on route 9 Charles is on Charles Street at Perrysville
Avenue.  It is not Perry. Farther out ... at least outside the city ...
I think the term Perry Highway was used but certainly not inside the
city.  

I'D ALSO BE DELIGHTED TO BUY A PRINT OF 4366 ON NEVILLE ISLAND. 

Kenneth Josephson wrote:
> 
> Dave Mewhinney added four shots of Pittburgh work cars here:
> 
> http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/kjp5.htm
> 
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