[PRCo] Re: Homewood

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Link did not work for me.

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Boris
Cefer
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 12:20 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood


I give up, but see the photos. Terribly long link.

http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?sid=46017d0da922f44
c8f50880157b2c73f&q1=Pittsburgh+Railways&rgn1=ic_all&type=boolean&xc=1&g=iml
s&view=thumbnail

B

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:43 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood


> I was thinking the same thing ... roof looked OK ... but I backed off when
I
> could not even find a car in it that screamed "Pittsburgh Railways."
There was
> a third shop at South Hills Junction (the buildings below the car house).
I
> don't have exact dates but I think Manchester and South Hills Shops were
closed
> in the 1930s when the company found it was cost effective to shop cars on
a
> mileage basis.
>
> I could see two different size wheels but the camera position made it
impossible
> to tell if gears were or were not pressed on the axles.  For all I could
see,
> they could be different size wheels for maximum traction trucks, which PRC
> didn't favor.   That is why I made the snide remark about it looking like
a
> picture of wheels ... I was unable to prove anything.
>
> "Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
>
> > This may be Manchester Shops.
> >
> > -----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, May 02, 2005 7:16 PM
> > To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood
> >
> > I think it is a picture of wheels!    The wooden floor makes me suspect
that
> > it is
> > not Homewood.   I cannot see enough to even tell if it is Pittsburgh.
> >
> > Boris Cefer wrote:
> >
> > > Content-Type: text/plain;
> > >         charset="iso-8859-2"
> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> > > Is this a photo of the Homewood shops?
> > >
> > > Boris
> > >
> > > -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
> > > -- Type: image/jpeg
> > > -- Size: 76k (78390 bytes)
> > > -- URL :
> > http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/02-getimage-idx.jpg
>
>
>