[PRCo] Re: For Bob:::___

[Bob Dietrich]

I like these.  My cousins lived on Shaler Street so I was over there often
playing.  This is the place where, as my mother told me, they had to raise
Grandview Avenue because the dip at Shaler Street was too sharp to get a car
through.  The top end of Shaler Street took a drastic upward incline for the
last block.  Remember before PCCs came along the line stub-ended at the
Duquesne incline.  Double end cars were the order of the day.  

When was that switch removed from the back track?  The best I ever came up
with was somewhere between 1952 and the fabled sixties.

Bob 

-----Original Message-----
From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Jim
Holland
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:12 AM
To: - 1714 PRCo__WP__JTC -
Subject: [PRCo] For Bob:::___

A couple photos included and again, the scans from the negative are 
Stunning!
.
1264 on the 40-line on Grandview in 1962 and second photo shows 1705 on 
the back track on top of the RR style turnout which led to both Inbound 
and Outbound Warrington lines, 44 and 48.     Now why would an 
Interurban be on this trackage - did he run around the loop near 
Warrington?      This is before the loop around the admin bldg cuts into 
the back track.
.
Incidentally, Mr.Styffe, photog of 1264, is from Glendale 2(!), CA.
.
.
.
.
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^
Jim  Holland
.
Studying Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo)
.
..............................From 1930 -- 1950
.
Pennsylvania  Trolley  Museum  (PTM)
.
http://www.pa-trolley.org/
.
N.M.R.A.
.
http://www.nmra.org/


-- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
-- Type: image/jpeg
-- Size: 159k (163482 bytes)
-- URL :
http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1264_40-OB_Grandview-Sha
ler_19620611_AWStyffe.jpg


-- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
-- Type: image/jpeg
-- Size: 87k (89202 bytes)
-- URL :
http://lists.dementia.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/1705_35+SHJ_backtrack_19
52xxxx_RSchramm.jpg