[PRCo] Fwd: Reedsdale Gas Explosion

[Schneider Fred]

Before you tell me the link does not work ... I know that one of the  
servers truncated the first link after -pa- .   Just click on the  
first link.   It will pull up a window that says it isn't there.    
Then copy in the rest of the link from "disastrous through 1927 and  
paste it into the web browser behind the original link and push  
enter.   You will now get what you wanted.
Also notice in the second story the problem that so often happens  
when people write books and after the fact articles.   The original  
newspaper account about the explosion was dated November 14th.   The  
after the fact story in the second link claims the explosion happened  
November 15th.

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> From: Schneider Fred <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> Date: September 30, 2008 7:33:20 PM EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Reedsdale Gas Explosion
> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
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> There was a 4700 series car that was destroyed in a monstrous gas
> explosion in Manchester in 1927.   The explosion was mentioned in the
> route card for route 20 Reedsdale.   I went looking on the internet
> to see what I could find.   Two immediate hits.   Thought you guys
> might like to read about one of the words disasters in Pittsburgh's
> history.
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> http://www3.gendisasters.com/pennsylvania/5164/pittsburgh,-pa-
> disastrous-gas-explosion,-nov-1927
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> This tells of a haunted house destroyed in the explosion.   See the
> last paragraph.
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> http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/history/a/congelier_house.htm
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> Remember guys, Equitable Gas, Duquesne Light Company, Pittsburgh
> Railways were all the same happy (or not so happy) family.
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