[PRCo] Re: Washington Interurban Forensics

[Dwight Long]

Bob

I doubt this picture was taken on the Washington interurban line at all.

I believe all sidings on that line which were open track sidings were 
protected by USS track/impedance bond signals.  This photo shows a Nachod 
signal  OHL contactor, which suggests to me that it was not on the 
Washington line.  Could this possibly be on 38A?

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Iannucci" <bob at rail.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 1:09 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Washington Interurban Forensics


> Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:
>> In the archives is a picture of an old car that no one on this list can
>> identify isn't there.  It is reportedly on the Interurban lines.  A PCC 
>> was
>> also photographed at the same location.  It is tedious trying to find the
>> photo in the archives.  This looks like the photo in the archives,
>> again, location unidentified by anyone:
>> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/wvp009.htm
>>
>
> This is a really intriguing picture - I had never seen it before.  The lay
> of the roadbed behind the car, the direction of the track, and the 
> location
> of the poles match a location in Upper St. Clair, just southwest of the
> former Drake Trestle.   The area is now called Wiltshire Park.  Analysis 
> of
> old maps shows that a walking path in that park was once part of the
> roadbed of the former Washington Interurban line.  On my trip to 
> Pittsburgh
> this summer, I shot photos of that area.  The poles are long gone, but
> there is still pretty clear evidence of them on the right hand side
> (relative to the direction in which the car in the picture is traveling) 
> of
> the former roadbed.  The widening of the walking path in that area now
> corresponds to the passing siding we see in the picture from the 1940's.
> Can anyone say if there was a passing siding just southwest of the
> Trestle?  The area is overgrown now, but when I was growing up in Upper 
> St.
> Clair in the 1960's, this area was just brush as in the 1940's photo.
>
> I've made up the attached for your review - to give you some context and 
> to
> invite analysis of these two pictures.  Were they shot at the same
> location?  At present, the evidence is somewhat thin.  Any information to
> prove or disprove this will be appreciated.
>
> If anyone can find the picture of the PCC taken at the same location (as
> mentioned above), I'd really appreciate it.  Also, I am looking for *any*
> photos of the former Washington interurban line in the area from Drake to
> the southwest edge of Upper St. Clair.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
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