[PRCo] Re: PRC 313A-317-1202 Franchise Car

[Schneider Fred]

As it is we're a home for wayward shelters.

On Feb 3, 2009, at 3:56 PM, John Swindler wrote:

>
>
> I thought Linden Grove was a former P&CS site, but can't recall  
> where this "impression" came from.  But you are right - that  
> article raises more questions to investigate.
>
> But there was a small wooden structure by the tracks both at Grove  
> Rd. and Frederick St. (Glenbury) that were former P&CS structures.   
> This was a comment from Baxter on a long-ago fantrip.  Pity PTM  
> didn't save one, but then again, every possession is also a liability.
>
> John
>
>
>> From: fwschneider at comcast.net> Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC  
>> 313A-317-1202 Franchise Car> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:36:12 -0500>  
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org> > Finally had a chance to  
>> read this document over an Indian lunch > today. At the time the  
>> coke "battery" existed, the P&CS only ran > 1.5 miles from  
>> somewhere to somewhere. It could be no farther south > than  
>> McKinley Park. However, if we assume the tunnel and the long >  
>> curve were part of it, that shortens the south end to just about >  
>> where the Liberty Tubes come out today and makes more sense.> >  
>> That is a great link to the Pittsburgh and Castle Shannon. The  
>> rest > of you ought to read it. Amazing that the railroad had  
>> options on > about 1.89 square miles of land which became the  
>> towns of Overbook > and Castle Shannon. I wish John Swindler would  
>> read it and tell me > if Linden Grove under a former name was one  
>> of those sites that P&CS > owned.> > Now I need to go to the list  
>> of Civil War batteries.> > > On Jan 3!
>  0, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:> > > On Fri, 30  
> Jan 2009, Schneider Fred wrote:> >> >> I've been searching old maps  
> and other on-line sources for several> >> hours without success.  
> Perhaps one of you has the answer to this> >> question:> >>> >> Two  
> locations are involved with the 313A-317-1202 franchise car that>  
> >> make no sense at all to me:> >>> >> One is called "Battery."  
> This place called Battery was six minutes> >> from the office at  
> South Hills Tunnel by some route. I have no idea> >> what a battery  
> is. I've looked on maps for batteries of coke ovens> >> and storage  
> batteries. I've looked at the 1884 industrial map of> >>  
> Pittsburgh. Nothing is popping out.> >> > Pittsburgh & Castle  
> Shannon Railroad had 8 coke ovens. Is that a > > battery?> > Is  
> that "the" battery? I dunno.> >> > http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/ 
> habshaer/pa/pa3400/pa3483/data/pa3483.pdf> >> > I don't know (yet)  
> where they were. One presumes "along the Overbrook> > line"> >> >>  
> The other plac!
>  e is 3rd St. and Washington Road. Well, guess what,> >> there was  
> no i
> ntersection of 3rd Street and Washington Road.> >> > *Old* Hopkins  
> shows Carson St *west* of Smithfield as "Washington> > Turnpike".>  
> >> > Washington Avenue (Warrington) on Sanborns of 1893; No sign of  
> a paper> > street down from Climax.> >> >> >
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