[PRCo] Re: Fwd: Rt. 65

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

  http://trolley.dementia.org/macmarka/PRCO4346.TIF
>	also
  http://trolley.dementia.org/macmarka/PRCO4346.JPG

>  On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 Macmarka at cs.com wrote:

> Hello Derrick.    I'm attaching a scan of PRCo 4346 at what
> Jim Holland told me was the terminus of the line when the photo
> was taken 4/12/42.    Note the dest. sign of 65 Homeville Mifflin.
> This was as Jim told me before the loop was installed at Muldowney.

	Let me clarify this, please.    I said this  *appeared*  to be
the terminal because the operator had changed ends to head back
to Homestead.    *Appears*  as though 56-line is in the
background as a hanger for the trolley wire can be seen in the
background just to the right of the car and level with the top of
the windows.

	ALSO  blowing the photo up and it appears that the trolleywire
thar 4347 is using dead ends at a line pole.    Two line poles
are very close together in the picture and appear to be joined at
the base but enlarging reveals they are separate poles.

> When were the loops installed at Muldowney and Munhall?

	As I mentioned in another email to Mark, John C. Swindler and I
had a conversation about this some time back, whether privately
or onlist I don't remember.

	As late as 1945 it seems there was a loop where an outbound car
on the 56 line would turn right and loop under the 56 to return
and head back inbound.    This is indicated on the 1945-version
of the ERA map.    By 1949, the loop at Muldowney as we knew it
was in place.

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