[PRCo] Re: Point

[Fred Schneider]

You're looking, Jim, at the 17s and the 12s.   My eye caught other  
things.   Such as how much the telephoto lens compressed the  
picture.   The 17th Street Incline in the distance with the  
billboards over Bigelow Boulevard.   Remember when Pittsburgh Outdoor  
Advertising Company owned all those billboards?

The Rosenbaum's store caught my eye too, reminding me that Jewish  
immigrants to this country were often the mercantile leaders in many  
of our cities.

And all those standard 40 foot box cars on the Pennsylvania Railroad  
in the foreground.   When did we last see one of them?   At that time  
the Standard Railroad of the World ran LCL-1 (westbound) and LCL-2  
(eastbound) everyday, solid trains of less than carload shipments.    
The Pennsylvania's freight house was right downtown where it should  
be to serve Rosenbaums, Hornes, Gimbles, Kauffmans and all the other  
stores.   At one time they had another one on the North Side.   The  
railroad thought there was a future in that business, so much so that  
when they were evicted by the Gateway Center Recevelopment project,  
they built a new LCL freight house out in the Strip District beyond  
the passenger station.   It didn't work.   Eisenhower and our House  
and Senate decided we needed interstate highways.   The railroads in  
this country finally surrendered the LCL business to the truckers by  
the early 1960s.     It's not called LTL for Less than Trailer Load.

Jim, that's my grandfather's idea of what Pittsburgh should look like!

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On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Jim Holland wrote:

> http://tinyurl.com/2deo7z
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> Must be rush hour~!~!     Two 17s in the foreground so the photo  
> must be
> 1949 or later, but Not Much Later~!~!     Looks like a 12 in the
> distance coming toward us, followed by a 17, and another Air Car  
> heading
> away from us beyond the RR overpass.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/yqc9s2
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>
>
> -- 
> *Jim Holland*
>
> Studying *Pittsburgh Railways Company*
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> ....................From 1930 -- 1950
>
> *Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM)*
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> http://www.pa-trolley.org/
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> *N.M.R.A.*
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> http://www.nmra.org/
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