[PRCo] Re: Location?

[Fred Schneider]

I HAVE AN ACTUAL PRINT IN MY HAND NOW ... it's a route 55 car and it  
cannot possibly turn back here.   What you cannot see in the picture  
in the URL is that the track in the forground that shows in my print  
does not show in the scanned print.   The car has no option but to  
make the complete S turn.   If this is where you say it is, then it  
has to go into Wilkinsburg through Forest Hills with a 55 destination  
sign.

All the pictures were taken on the same date:   July 23, 1950.   The  
one in question is negative PN 12609 sold by Railroad Avenue  
Enterprises, P. O. Box 114, Flanders NJ 07836.   It is one of a group  
of negatives (12610, 12608, 12613) that we've identified as having  
been taken in Rankin or Braddock at the time of the construction of  
the new high level bridge and before the trolleys were ruled off the  
old bridge.    My suspicion is that it is underneath on of the ramps  
to the new bridge and matches negative 12610 which looks the opposite  
direction and shows the B&O tracks to the left side.

Unfortunately, the trip to Pittsburgh on the 10th has been ruled  
out ... my wife had a conflict on that date.

fws

On Nov 30, 2006, at 9:33 AM, <hrbran99 at adelphia.net>  
<hrbran99 at adelphia.net> wrote:

> At the end of Ardmore Blvd just at the Forest Hills/E. Pgh city  
> limits. I remember this view from working the 87-Ardmore BUS. The  
> row houses were still there back when I worked the bus.
> --
> HrB
>
> ---- Jim Holland <prcopcc at p-r-co.com> wrote:
>> Mark McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> Recently saw this on eBay and was wondering where exactly this
>>> location is. Caption states that the dest. sign reads 55, but this
>>> could very well be a fan trip. I don't see any single trackage on  
>>> the
>>> 55 other than at the very end of the line in East Pittsburgh.
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>> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1472%20rt.% 
>> 2055%207-23-50.jpg
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>> .
>> Shoefly  (Shoofly??)  at Rankin Bridge construction.       The
>> TrolleyCar will shortly pull parallel to the RR tracks at Near RR  
>> Track
>> Grade!       There is a turnout for the TrolleyCar at that  
>> location as well.
>> .
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>> .
>> Jim___Holland
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