[PRCo] Re: CARSON & SMITHFIELD JCT.

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

I believe Mr. Vigrass was in the 'burgh in August 1947, this is his photo.

http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/bvp013.htm

In 1950 it looked like this 

http://www.users.voicenet.com/~shawncd/SHJ/cr3800.htm

you decided 


 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Jim Holland [mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net] 
Sent:	Friday, April 05, 2002 3:01 PM
To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject:	[PRCo] Re: CARSON & SMITHFIELD JCT.


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?!?!(:->))
no, to be symmetrical #2 would be "What was the pull-in, pull-out routing of
the 32-line?" !(:->))



James B. Holland

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