[PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch

[Barry, Matthew R]

Aha!   That would've been my next question.  Thanks, Derrick.   That looks like Carnegie Loop.

Matt

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From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Derrick Brashear
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:44 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch

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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> Derrick



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Derrick