[PRCo] Re: Homewood

[John Swindler]

I use this shorter link to get to the maps, but then click on 'images'

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/index.html

Among the search options is a Pittsburgh Railways collection.  Some great 
old photos, but don't believe all the captions.  Obviously the person that 
wrote the captions doesn't know what they were looking at.  (interns???  -  
I never realized that Craft Ave. car barn was in Homewood)  But seriously, 
they need someone like Ed to clean up the captions - and Derrick to make 
scans for PTM.

Also try search using 'railways', 'trolley', 'streetcar', etc.  There is an 
interesting view of a multiple unit train in use for a charter move.  It's 
in the Irene Kaufman collection.

Stuffs been added since last time I browsed.  Thanks Boris for bringing up 
the subject.

John



>From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams at adelphia.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood
>Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 12:23:40 -0400
>
>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
> >
> >
> >
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