[PRCo] Re: 'maybe' not East McKeesport, another theory

[robert netzlof]

--- On Tue, 11/29/11, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> 6.   If it is anywhere in this region, it
> has to be along the old dirt road south of the Mann's
> Narrows Bridge and north of Yeagertown.

I think not.

I've drawn a circle with a couple rays radiating from its center on the attached map snippet. I think that if the photographer stood at the apex of the two rays looking out between them, he would have seen something rather like the mystery photo.

>   It
> cannot be north of Mann's Narrows Bridge because the river
> separated the railroad and the car line / highway. 

Granted, there is no river/creek/stream visible in the photo. However, if there's just a strip of flat ground between the road and the railroad, why the sturdy fence along the road? I suspect it's there because the road is hard against the edge of the creek bank.

> 7.  However, I am not buying into it because that is
> tangent and the picture we are trying to identify has a very
> pronounced curve.   

As does the bit of road/creek/railroad enclosed between the rays on the map snippet.
 
> The Photo:
> 
> http://bradystewartphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/20th-Century-Automobiles-Trucks-and-Boats/G0000flbWWbccdiw/I0000RZxXcxRETYA
> 
> The USGS 15 minute map

Now revised as mann4.jpg

Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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