[PRCo] Re: Rohrbeck's book

[Edward H. Lybarger]

And then there is the top photo on page 15.  I don't know where it is...the
car was all over the system that day (yes, we have its
routing!)...Wilmerding perhaps?

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Hello,
 Yes, some bad captioning, indeed.   Here are some instances that I am aware
of.

Page 15.   A pic of West End route 34/31 car on Water Street outbound to the
Point Bridge, is described as being on Penn Avenue, in October, 1962.
1962?
June, 1959, of course, saw the last West End car in operation.

Page 19.  A pic of 19 Western Avenue car on East Ohio Street, North Side, is
described as gliding "along downtown Pittsburgh."

P 23.  A pic of routes 77/54 and 53 cars looping at Brentwood loop, is
described
as Carrick and route 47 cars looping at Carrick loop.  Carrick's close
enough,
but the "47" car captioned is definitely a "77/54."

P 26.   A pic of route 65 Munhall coming down 12th street in Homestead,
having
just turned off of West Street, is described as a Route 60 East
Liberty-Homestead car, in Homestead.

P 29.  A pic of a car signed for 73 Highland shown in Oakland on Fifth
Avenue at
the Masonic Temple, is described as being on Bunker Hill street in 1938.
That
may be in 1938, but that is not Bunker Hill street.

P 31.   88 Frankstown car on Penn Avenue in East Liberty, I believe, is
incorrectly described as being on Frankstown Avenue.

P 32.  Cars 1295 and 1111 on Liberty Avenue, side by side, one on the
regular
outbound track, and the other on the passing outbound track, are in a photo
dated "June 7, 1960."    That could be the case, but there is enough snow on
the
hillside and sidewalk to suggest that this was months earlier or months
later
than the month of June.   Still, I suppose stranger weather occurences have
happened in Pittsburgh.

Anything else?

I am very grateful to Benson Rohrbeck for publishing this volume, so I hope
my
notes above do not come off as major complaints.  It is better, at least for
me,
to see these photographs with the wrong captioning, than not to see them at
all.  Still, if I were not aware of the locales, I would make the wrong
assumptions about where the photographs were taken.   I like to have the
whole
picture, i.e., know the location, date, etc. as it were, to make the
experience
of viewing it that much more enjoyable.

Matt

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> store at pa-trolley.org  is the operative address that will get you Jackie,
the
> store manager, and, therefore, a book.  Beware of inaccuracies, though.
Ben
> was given some bad captioning to work with.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:53 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Rohrbeck's book
>
> Pennsylvania Trolley Museum does stock Ben Rohrbeck's new Pittsburgh
> book.  I'm sure Lynn would be very happy to sell it to you and let the
> museum make a little money.  (I don't know her e-mail address but you
> could try sbecker at pa-trolley.org and ask Scott to forward the note.
>
> For those who have not seen the museum lately ... PST 14 looks, in the
> oft repeated words of Tony the Tiger, Grrrreeate.  Inside just cleams in
> new paint.  New seats.  Outside sparkles.  All the bright metal ...
> headlight rims, window sash, etc., are polished.   (You need to look to
> find evidence that it isn't a new car ... a ding in the window sash
> where some kid hit it with a rock in its last life, for example.  And I
> never knew how much space two disassembled St. Louis car trucks consume
> ... the whole back room of the shop is filled with two frames, the
> equilizer bars, springs, motors, new wheel sets.
>
> fws

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:

> store at pa-trolley.org  is the operative address that will get you Jackie,
the
> store manager, and, therefore, a book.  Beware of inaccuracies, though.
Ben
> was given some bad captioning to work with.
>
> Ed
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 8:53 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Rohrbeck's book
>
> Pennsylvania Trolley Museum does stock Ben Rohrbeck's new Pittsburgh
> book.  I'm sure Lynn would be very happy to sell it to you and let the
> museum make a little money.  (I don't know her e-mail address but you
> could try sbecker at pa-trolley.org and ask Scott to forward the note.
>
> For those who have not seen the museum lately ... PST 14 looks, in the
> oft repeated words of Tony the Tiger, Grrrreeate.  Inside just cleams in
> new paint.  New seats.  Outside sparkles.  All the bright metal ...
> headlight rims, window sash, etc., are polished.   (You need to look to
> find evidence that it isn't a new car ... a ding in the window sash
> where some kid hit it with a rock in its last life, for example.  And I
> never knew how much space two disassembled St. Louis car trucks consume
> ... the whole back room of the shop is filled with two frames, the
> equilizer bars, springs, motors, new wheel sets.
>
> fws