[PRCo] Re: Fw: Route 54

[Herb Brannon]

Apparently some on The List can receive. I tried to access the archives and
keep getting "server off-line" messages.
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 17:33, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> What picture.   Cannot find server.   Derrick!
>
>
> On Jun 26, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
>
> > I found this Bill Volkmer photo of PRCo 5432 on Forbes Avenue, Sept 8,
> 1956
> > with the 54-Fifth & Craig St Only sign. This is obviously a revenue trip;
> so
> > the 54 did operate as a separate line.
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 18:06, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, they traveled all over the place.  The poster doesn't put a day
> with
> >> the date, or I could make a good guess.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> >> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> Herb
> >> Brannon
> >> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 6:04 PM
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: Route 54
> >>
> >> The orchestra was in business from c1935 until 1972. Hard to say when
> they
> >> were in Pittsburgh without doing a search of the newspapers.
> >> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 17:11, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net
> >>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> This could have been a railfan movement.  I never heard of PCC cars on
> >>> 54, even though the sign may have been there.  If it's Lincoln Avenue
> >>> loop, the topography appears to be OK.  The picture is so distorted
> >>> that it's hard to put it all into perspective.
> >>>
> >>> Now we just need to determine when the Johnny Long Orchestra was in
> >>> Pittsburgh.
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> >>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> Bob Rathke
> >>> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 4:33 PM
> >>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: Route 54
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> It doesn't look like Craft which didn't have a high hill close to the
> car
> >>> house.   Possibly Carrick car house?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I also noted the sign on the car to the right advertising Vogue
> >>> Terrace which was a dinner theater in East Pittsburgh; in it's heyday
> >>> in the 30's and 40's it hosted big bands such as Lawrence Welk, and in
> >>> the 50's singers and other entertainers. It was destroyed in a fire in
> >> May, 1963.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Bob
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> From: "Matthew R Barry" <mrb190 at pitt.edu>
> >>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 1:39:37 PM
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Fw: Route 54
> >>>
> >>> A short-working of 77/54?
> >>>
> >>> Interesting photo.   Craft Car House maybe?
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> >>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of
> >>> rayprco53 at verizon.net
> >>> Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 2:29 PM
> >>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >>> Subject: [PRCo] Fw: Route 54
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> >> --
> >> Herb Brannon
> >> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park