[PRCo] Re: Homewood

[Matt Barry]

Yes, about the captions.      I believe, in many cases, the writer used 
the begin & end dates of routes when they rec'd PCCs.    "This route ran 
from 1940 to 1966..."       And in some descriptions, the writer calls a 
streetcar a "bus."    Oy.   
Still, it's great that this collection is out there for all to see.   
Hope they add more to it!
John Swindler wrote:

>I use this shorter link to get to the maps, but then click on 'images'
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>http://digital.library.pitt.edu/maps/index.html
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>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.
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>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.
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>Stuffs been added since last time I browsed.  Thanks Boris for bringing up 
>the subject.
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>John
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>>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
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>>Link did not work for me.
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>>-----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
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>>I give up, but see the photos. Terribly long link.
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>>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
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>>B
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>>----- 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
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>>>I was thinking the same thing ... roof looked OK ... but I backed off 
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>>>could not even find a car in it that screamed "Pittsburgh Railways."
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>>There was
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>>>a third shop at South Hills Junction (the buildings below the car 
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>>house).
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>>>don't have exact dates but I think Manchester and South Hills Shops were
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>>closed
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>>>in the 1930s when the company found it was cost effective to shop cars 
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>>on
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>>>mileage basis.
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>>>I could see two different size wheels but the camera position made it
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>>impossible
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>>>to tell if gears were or were not pressed on the axles.  For all I could
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>>see,
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>>>they could be different size wheels for maximum traction trucks, which 
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>>PRC
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>>>didn't favor.   That is why I made the snide remark about it looking 
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>>like
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>>>picture of wheels ... I was unable to prove anything.
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>>>"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
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>>>>This may be Manchester Shops.
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
>>>>[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of 
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>>Fred
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>>>>Schneider
>>>>Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 7:16 PM
>>>>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>>>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood
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>>>>I think it is a picture of wheels!    The wooden floor makes me 
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>>suspect
>>that
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>>>>it is
>>>>not Homewood.   I cannot see enough to even tell if it is Pittsburgh.
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>>>>Boris Cefer wrote:
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>>>>>Content-Type: text/plain;
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>>>>>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>>>>Is this a photo of the Homewood shops?
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>>>>>Boris
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>>http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/02-getimage-idx.jpg
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