[PRCo] Re: PRC 3761 Southbound at Allenport Siding, July 27, 1952

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Oh...you mean the large house in the PCC photo.  Yes, I agree.

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Brashear
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: PRC 3761 Southbound at Allenport Siding, July 27, 1952

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net>
wrote:
> The track sketches, however were most revealing, and I immediately 
> understood what was being overlooked.  It also reminded me that I had 
> failed to observe Rule #1:  Test Everything.  The passing siding shown 
> on Tom's map "circa 1940" had been removed in 1934.  To compound the 
> problem, we have all been thinking that the siding was at the north 
> end of town.  Once sketch
> 34-029 disabused me of that notion, I drove directly to the spot that 
> today allows the same long view as the 1952 photo.  The PCC photo that 
> Phil posted was helpful...it gave an indication of something other 
> than weeds on a hillside at the left.  That in fact is PA 88; the road 
> dead ahead is the entrance to the Wheeling-Pittsburgh steel mill, from 
> whence I took today's pictures.

Oh. Doh. I should have been more clear. I had assumed it was at the north
end of what was the old alignment and now is the steel mill (well, now is
nothing since W-P moved to Yorkville) When I said PennPilot supported the
shot being there, well, the thing which looks like the large house on the
right in the background is (or appears to be) in the 1939 aerial.

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Derrick