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

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 5:55 PM, robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> --- On Tue, 11/29/11, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> if there's no creek, could it be anywhere south of tyrone
>> to altoona?
>> did the predecessor to 220 ever exist that close to the
>> valley wall on
>> the east?
>
> Indeed, as one leaves Bellwood on the way toward Tyrone, 220 gets quite close to the foot of Brush Mountain as does the PRR main and as did the Altoona trolley line. But so does the Little Juniata River. So there's no no creek in that stretch.
>
> I was a bit surprised to see on the 192-something Tyrone quad that the street car turned at Tyrone and ran a mile and a half or so eastward along the Little Juniata. That might open up another possible place or two. Nothing I can see there, however seems to fit as well as Mann Narrows, objections raised so far not withstanding.

yeah. looked last night at pennpilot and old topos and i gotta go with
no. looked at mann narrows and really, i think it depends what it
looked like before the highway bridge was moved. pennpilot is too new.
with only the prr lewistown book to work from, can't say. i should
look again tonight.

wilmerding (actually patton township), can't say, but having been past
the only spot that could vaguely qualify i have to say the valley wall
wasn't high enough, the geography doesn't support a rock slip like
that, and the sun would be in the wrong place.

it may be "none of these", including as dwight points out and i
wondered before "not in this state", tho my earlier "on the way to
cincinnati" theory, my only thought would be it would have to be a
valley which is a tributary of the ohio in eastern ohio or northern
west virginia for that kind of rock slip to be likely.

actually, my wife studied geography for a while before changing
majors; maybe i should ask her about it.


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Derrick