[PRCo] Re: 1431___Location?

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

I used to drive the 68-E. Liberty/Homestead/Munhall BUS out of E. Liberty garage. It turned around at Munhall Loop. Munhall Loop still had the car tracks and was more confined than the landscape in the questionable photo. There were also two (2) small buildings in the loop which would be showing in that photo if it were Munhall. The frist was a restroom with a storage section and the second was a supervisors (Route Foreman) office. The restroom/storage was probably 10' x 15' and the Route Foreman office probably 6' x 6'. The restroom was located right on the curbline of whatever street is the main drag of Homestead with the car tracks just behind it. The office was back from the street where the two loop car tracks merged  into one just before exiting the loop and back on the street. Any trolleys would be pointing East after entering the loop. Therefore, the restroom building should be showing behind the trolley in the photo if it is Munhall. It was a small loop as I remember. I picked that late night run on the 68 many times when I was at E. Liberty Garage and I remember the loop quite well. It would be nice, however, if the photo showed more of the background area.

HrB
HrB

---- Mark McGuire <macmarka at netzero.net> wrote: 
>   I still think it's Munhall Loop. Would help if one could see the 
> steel mills in the distance to the left rear of the car. 
> 
> -- Jim Holland <prcopcc at p-r-co.com> wrote:
> I doubt it would be Kennywood because the Half N' Half paint scheme 
> didn't debut until 1960 or later and Kennywood was long closed  --  
> To 
> TrolleyCars!!!
> .
> It is   *_Possible_*   that it is the following Charter:::::::
> .
> 1962.06.17    1431    PRCo    "Rambling Trolley:"
> ..........8, 15, 13, 10, 77/54, 50, 48, 49, 39, 37, 38A, 38, 42.
> .
> Looking at the overhead we see One Curve Hanger in the upper left and 
> the TrolleyPole is probably on this overhead  --  immediately behind 
> is 
> another trolleywire which looks like the distance between the two is 
> spreading  --  like a switch in the background that the car has just 
> negotiated.       Looks like a street behind 1431 but can't tell how 
> many tracks are on the street.       Suggestive of yard configuration 
> and I would say Keating but rest of photo doesn't seem to 
> match!!!       
> Think we can rule out 50, 48, 49, 39, 37, 38A, 38, 42.
> 
> Matt Barry wrote:
> 
> > My hunch is that it is somewhere on the trackage that used to be in 
> > front of
> > Kennywood Park.
> > What a great looking PCC!
> 
> 
> Edward H. Lybarger wrote:
> 
> > Not a clue. Is the 55A side sign any help?
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jim Holland" <prcopcc at p-r-co.com>
> > To: "- 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -" <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 9:08 PM
> > Subject: [PRCo] 1431___Location?
> 
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