[PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos

Ken and Tracie ktjosephson at embarqmail.com
Tue Dec 6 12:34:00 EST 2011


I have a fantrip shot of PCC 1646 sporting a Baldy-moe "Sparrow Point" roll 
sign.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 5:32 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Historic Chaos


>
>
> How about "5 Hillcrest"?
>
> Might have been from a Dayton trackless roll sign.
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>> 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.
>> >
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>> > http://lists.dementix.org/files/pittsburgh-railways/pitt1705.jpg
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>> -- 
>> Herb Brannon
>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
>>
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