[PRCo] Re: Homewood

[James B. Holland]

John Swindler wrote:


> The date for the Cleveland photos is summer 1964, post Port Authority 
> takeover. On other hand, so much else is inaccurate, that I should be 
> suspicious of this date. Some other photos are attributed to Blaine 
> Hays. Was he a Cleveland railfan????????? (name sounds familiar, but 
> can't place)


Yes, Blaine is Cleveland  --  *supposedly*  doing a book on Pittsburgh  
--  the book possibility has been discussed here before.        Seems 
the Shaker photos just got mixed in with Pgh is all.


> Was the Pittsburgh Railways collection the start, and streetcar photos 
> from other sources added to this collection?? Did the photos actually 
> come from Pittsburgh Railways, or from another source? (guess I'd 
> better go back and see what else might be posted concerning this 
> collection) Quite a few have a definite 'railfan' (sorry about that) 
> look to them. Still, I've never seen photos of McKeesport and 
> Homestead carbarns. Wonder what else they have that wasn't posted.
>
> John


Maybe  *someone*  within PRCo knew Blaine and just got the photos mixed 
into his PRCo collection is all.       Someone should mention those 
Shaker photos so they can be removed from a PRCo collection.       
A--N--D    ----    for a PRCo collection, the bias is heavily  
({[pat]})    ----    Not  PRCo!

>> From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Homewood
>> Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:30:28 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>> On Wed, 4 May 2005, Boris Cefer wrote:
>>
>>> But why the photos of Shaker Heights Rapid Transit?
>>
>> Company trip where they went and looked at the new Cleveland Rapid, 
>> maybe, to bring back ideas?
>>
>>>> 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!
>>>

Jim__Holland


I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!

down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!