[PRCo] Re: Photo Spots

[John Swindler]

Yes.  It was a track connection from Frankstown/Homewood Shops and the 76 
Hamilton line.

>From: Carl Zager <czager at mccsc.edu>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Photo Spots
>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 11:48:09 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>Bennett was just a hop-skip from the Homewood carbarn. Right?
>
>
>On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Kenneth Josephson wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > "Fred W. Schneider III" wrote:
> >
> > >  ... 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!
> >
> > Milwaukee used to set streetcars, interurbans and other assorted pieces 
>of
> > freshly built or outshopped equipment right in the middle 38th and 
>McKinley
> > to take photos. Not a major intersection for auto traffic, but with 
>Miller
> > Brewery, Harley-Davidson and other assorted industries nearby, this must
> > have occasionally raised heck with truck traffic.
> >
> > In either case, it would be no different than the power company or water
> > district shutting down sections of roadway to perform various tasks 
>today.
> >
> > Ken J.
> >
> >
>
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>  Carl Zager		MCCSC Instructional Technology Coordinator
>  czager at mccsc.edu	http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager/
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