[PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch
Derrick Brashear
shadow at gmail.com
Mon Nov 26 15:44:12 EST 2012
Google Image search says the actual image was Carnegie:
http://liquala.com/pcc-photo-49.html
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
> Snodders Switch: pretty sure it was past what's now Robinson Blvd,
> where Frankstown Ave/Rd was crossed.
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> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:36 PM, BobDietrich <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> I'm forwarding your query to the experts. I'm sure we'll get an answer.
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>> Bob
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>> From: Don McFadden [mailto:]
>> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 2:30 PM
>> To: bob at dietrichsfam.com
>> Subject: Snodders Switch
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>> Hi,
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>> I've had the attached slide in my files from a batch I bought long ago. I
>> got to wondering where Snodders Switch was, but haven't found it online
>> anywhere. I see the rte no is 78, and I did read in Ron Beal's wonderful
>> Volume One book about PRCO that there once was a 78 Verona Oakmont line.
>> The new CERA book has nothing on it.
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>> And the only web reference I found was an article about a development along
>> the Allegheny River that had "Snodders Switch" in the title, but no mention
>> of it in the article. So I assume it was somewhere along the Allegheny
>> River. Do you have any idea where it was?
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>> Don McFadden
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>> Hendersonville, NC, but grew up in Mt. Lebanon
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