[PRCo] Re: CARSON & SMITHFIELD JCT.
Jim Holland
pghpcc at pacbell.net
Fri Apr 5 15:00:44 EST 2002
Good Morning!
> ROGER Jenkins wrote:
> Hey Jim , look at my video as it may show the tracks that were turning
> onto Carson or off of it in that scene of rush hour at that corner taken
> from above that intersection. My copy is somewhere here but can't put
> my hands on it at the moment.
But that is about 1957--1959, Roger, and all the track that was ever built
in this location is already in place. The only trackage lacking to make a
Grand Union was straight thru east and west on Carson! Why didn't PRCo
consider the *railfans* and complete the Grand? (THAT will cause some
comments!(:->))
Our real concern is pre-1950. We know that in 1949 that the intersection
was *complete.* Sometime between 1946--1949 the 2-turns from east Carson
to south tunnel and north tunnel to west Carson were installed --
V-E-R-Y L-A-T-E in operations for the 32-shuttle, and A-F-T-E-R 1500s
were assigned to the 23-line.
So before about 1947:
1)--What was the pull-out, pull-in routing of the 23-line.
2)--What was the pull-out, pull-in routing of the 32-line.
3)--(Are these symmetrical questions?!?!(:->))
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