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

[Fred Schneider]

There is no creek in the picture between the highway and the railroad.    There is in the map.   The Kishocoquillas Creek is about 50 to 100 feet wide, not a little tiny run.



On Nov 29, 2011, at 2:11 PM, robert netzlof wrote:

> --- 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
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> Now revised as mann4.jpg
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> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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