[PRCo] Re: P&CSRR

[John Swindler]

>From: "Holland Electric Rwy. Op. H.E.R.O. -- Import SPTC 1.48 Models // 
>James B. Holland" <PRCoPCC at P-R-Co.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: P&CSRR
>Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 00:10:31 -0700
>
>James B. Holland wrote:
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> >There is a photo of the  [1907]  flood where it labeled the street as 
>Grant with a bridge at the end of it that looks like one of the Three 
>Sisters!
> >..
> >
>http://tinyurl.com/h9yp6    ----    AnyThing is possible at this date
>but I never   <<heard>>   of a bridge over the Mon at Grant!       Looks
>more like  6th,  7th,  or  9th  over the Allegheny to me!!       Not
>Smithfield unless the alignment of the previous bridge came in at an
>angle!       The one we knew was slightly east of Smithfield proper as
>the Smithfield lines had to jog to their left as they exited the bridge.
>..
>..
>
>http://tinyurl.com/kt2u9    ----    any guesses as to location?       
>Narrowness of prw with apparent slope on either side   <<suggests>>>   
>Overbrook in the vicinity of the PRCo single track and sidings    ----    
>but could be anywhere!
>..
>..


How about a very wild guess - emphasis on guess - at future site of 
Edgebrook siding looking south????????   Is that the curve up ahead leading 
into Bon Air siding???????

again, just a wild guess.




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> >It was an accidental find  --  looked through 1,000 other thumbs // 
>photos for a  Photo  I  Know  Is  There  But  CanNot  Find  and stumbled 
>across this one
> >
> >
> >trams at adelphia.net wrote:
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> >
> >>Nice find, Jim!  It never ceases to amaze me what's out there.
> >>
> >>It also amuses me that the history center's historians are so ignorant 
>that they caption this "one of" P&CSRR's lines!
> >>
> >>Ed
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