[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

John Swindler j_swindler at hotmail.com
Tue Dec 6 08:32:03 EST 2011


 
 
How about "5 Hillcrest"?  
 
Might have been from a Dayton trackless roll sign.

 

> From: hrbran at cavtel.net
> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 22:29:03 -0500
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> 
> Too bad the car didn't have a "foreign" destination sign roll installed.
> They could really pontificate over that photo with "E 129th/St Clair" or
> maybe "P-Pico/East First" showing.
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 14:43, Ken and Tracie <ktjosephson at embarqmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > I followed the debate over the apparently or possibly mislabeled photo
> > dated
> > 1906. The imagine could very well have been arbitrarily mislabeled. I
> > suspect that it has.
> > I possess a negative showing a Milwaukee Electric interurban on a 1948
> > fantrip along the Milwaukee-Port Washington line, displaying a destination
> > which was along a segment of another line. That stop had been eliminated
> > some years before the photo was taken. The negative was labeled "Waukesha
> > line, 1939." The shot was taken in Thiensville, Wisconsin. The white flags
> > on the car should have been a hint.
> >
> >
> > Now imagine the chaos this attached photo could cause in another one
> > hundred
> > years if it gets into the hands of a non-Pittsburgh fan. :-)
> >
> > K.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Attached file removed by Ecartis and put at URL below --
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> > -- Size: 98k (100971 bytes)
> > -- URL : http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/pitt1705.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> -- 
> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
> 
> 
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