[PRCo] Re: CARSON & SMITHFIELD JCT.

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> "Dietrich, Robert J." wrote:

> 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

	THANK  YOU  for the photos  --  esp. the second one  --  looked all over
Dave's site for it  --  obviously in the wrong place.

	Think the maps have already determined aprox. when the curves were added 
--  what we really need to know is pull-in//pull-out routings for 23- and
32-lines prior to about 1947 when the final curves were added.

>> 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.

>>> From:   Jim Holland [mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net]

>>> 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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