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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Schneider Fred wrote:

> Heading to Baltimore to the railroad show and to meet a friend.   The
> printer will be working all day because it will not print selected
> pages --- only knows how to print the entire P&CS piece.   When I get
> home, then I can print the Civil War batteries.

Print from the mac, and tell it to print from page whichever to page 
whichever?

> I also had a problem with those coke ovens unless somehwere under
> those ovens on West Liberty Avenue was a cross over from the inbound
> to the outbound track.   It might just have been another way of
> saying "Go to the Bell House" because it seemed they were still
> trying to perpetuate the old Washington Road (Bell House to Haberman)
> franchise under another name and perhaps with other landmarks and
> other crossovers.
>
> This little bits of earlier year semantics can drive later year
> historians crazy.   In my youth I could tell a bus driver on the
> Lancaster to Lititz bus to "Let me off at the Rotary." and most of
> them knew I meant Delp Road even though the rotary by then was
> imaginary.   It had been knocked out in a thunderstorm in 1935 or so
> and had been replaced by a portable rotary until the trolleys quit
> running in 1938 and here I was using the terminology in 1955-1958 and
> being understood.   It was the name of the stop in carmen's handbooks
> in the old days ... it was an officially named stop in the 1930s.
> The name Delp Road didn't come along until 1950 or 1951.   In between
> it was probably "Just let me off at the next stop, please."
>
> I must say that this route history project does teach one a lot about
> Pittsburgh history that I had never imagined it would.   It also has
> a way of dragging in other people into the loop such as Bruce
> Cridlebaugh, the perpetrator of the Bridge and Tunnel website.   He
> has been a marvelous help when I ask, is such and such a bridge at
> this location ... I cannot think of any other low spot on this
> street????   There is a lot of knowledge out there but the problem
> comes in sorting the wheat from the chaff.

I've been trying very hard to piece together the development of my 
neighborhood; the pieces are finally falling into place, but in the 
process the boroughs on the other side of the hill come into play: same 
people who mined coal here, mined it on the backside.

And there were apparently a large number of mine workings that when worked 
out, got holed through and used as transit to work the next tract back. Or 
further. So there were trestles connecting one mine to the next over 
valleys, and inclines to get coal down hills, and I wish I could find 
better documentation of what was where, or in some cases, anything beyond 
a line on a map.

But it will all work out by the time the other research comes along.