[PRCo] Re: Rohrbeck's book

[Boris Cefer]

Ed, are you sure the location of the "four aces" on p. 15 isn't Fort
Duquesne Boulevard approaching Stanvix?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <twg at pulsenet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rohrbeck's book


> 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?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> mrb190
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:26 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rohrbeck's book
>
>
> 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
>
>
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