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

[Schneider Fred]

It doesn't like those instructions.

On Jan 31, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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 and had been replaced by a portable rotary until the trolleys quit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.
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