[PRCo] Re: Location?

[Boris Cefer]

It is the Rankin location as originally stated by JBH.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:52 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Location?


> 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.
> >>
> >> .
> >> http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1472%20rt.% 
> >> 2055%207-23-50.jpg
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> 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.
> >> .
> >> .
> >> .
> >> Jim___Holland
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> 
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