[PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch

[Herb Brannon]

The PTM track map gives the general location of Snodders Switch. Look at
the top of the map to the left of the "downtown" maps.
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Barry, Matthew R <mrb190 at pitt.edu> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 3:36 PM, BobDietrich <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net>
> wrote:
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> >> Don:
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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,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Hendersonville, NC, but grew up in Mt. Lebanon
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> > Derrick
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> --
> Derrick
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-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park



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