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

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Oh...you mean the large house in the PCC photo.  Yes, I agree.

that'd be the one. that was the feature i was looking at/for.

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