[PRCo] Re: Can Anyone Identify?

John Swindler j_swindler at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 31 14:26:33 EDT 2004


It fooled me, Matt,

and I walked past this location five days a week (ok, so I was in grade 
school) for about six years and still didn't recognize this angle.

John



>From: Matt Barry <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Can Anyone Identify?
>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:49:53 -0400
>
>John,
>Cambria at Homestead Park Road?    I know of Cambria at Main Street
>which is where Homestead Park School is.   No resemblance at all to this
>area.  The school is prominent, not secluded at all, and on the other
>three corners of the intersection are businesses and homes, all fairly
>close to the street, that is, no long driveways or lawns.  And the
>intersection doesn't swerve as much as this one.
>
>I'm 99% sure this isn't Munhall -- but ya know?  That leaves that other
>1%....
>
>matt
>
>John Swindler wrote:
>
> >If have followed correct streets on topo map, what does intersection of
> >Homestead Park Rd. and Cambria St. look like on rt. 65??
> >
> >Yes, John B., doesn't look like 21, nor Wilkinsburg.  Nor 64, nor the 
>short
> >section of single track on 67 in Braddock.
> >
> >other John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>From: "John Bromley" <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
> >>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Can Anyone Identify?
> >>Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:40:00 -0400
> >>
> >>There wasn't that much single track left after 1960 - whether this is
> >>bi-directional track or not is unknown.
> >>
> >>There was s.t on the 15 on Bellevue but this isn't there.
> >>
> >>No one's going to convince me this is Fineview - too flat and too neat.
> >>
> >>Not the 85 along Wylie - it was straight.  Not Erin as it connected to 
>82
> >>double track on Center Av.
> >>
> >>Not any of the numbered streets between Penn and Liberty.  Wrong
> >>background.
> >>
> >>Not at the ends of the 71 or 73.
> >>
> >>Not on the 96 - again wrong background.  And I think it was gone before
> >>V-fronts came in (but am not 100% certain of the end date).
> >>
> >>Nowhere on the south side or west end (again no V fronts existed before 
>the
> >>west was gone).
> >>
> >>Nowhere east of Wilkinsburg.
> >>
> >>Matt, please check out the 65 - I think it's gotta be there somewhere.
> >>.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "John Bromley" <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
> >>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:20 PM
> >>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Can Anyone Identify?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>Someone should ask Joe Lance what the damn route sign says - if it
> >>>
> >>>
> >>wasn't
> >>an
> >>
> >>
> >>>excursion, and it doesn't look like it, that'd be a big clew!  It can't
> >>>
> >>>
> >>be
> >>
> >>
> >>>too hard to figure out, the damn car has a V-front paint scheme, so no
> >>>earlier than early 1960s at least.
> >>>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
> >>>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> >>>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:19 PM
> >>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Can Anyone Identify?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Track doesn't look right for Jane Street Loop, according to the track
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>map.
> >>
> >>
> >>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> >>>>[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>Carl
> >>
> >>
> >>>>Zager
> >>>>Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 5:08 PM
> >>>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Can Anyone Identify?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Jane Street Loop according to the tag on the "save as".
> >>>>
> >>>>Carl
> >>>>
> >>>>On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Matt Barry wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hello,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Can anyone identify the location of this PRC/PAT PCC?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Single track...hmmm, I am guessing Fineview, but it doesn't look
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>like
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>Fineview.  Munhall?   Maybe.
> >>>>>Anyone?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>http://www.trolleyphotos.com/Slideshows-static/PAT%205-04/Image32.html
> >>
> >>
> >>>>>Matt
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>--
> >>>> Carl Zager MCCSC Instructional Technology Coordinator
> >>>> czager at mccsc.edu http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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