[PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch

[John Swindler]

  Always liked the '86 Wilkinsburg via Subway Express' destination sign.. 
 > Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:44:42 -0800
> From: pcc_sr at yahoo.com
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> 
> Yes; the image is Carnegie loop but the "switch" was not located there
> was it.  The switch is on the 78-line which needed double-end cars; PCCs
> could never operate there.  The 1111 is on a charter which is known for
> bogus destination signs.  Witness the photo of 1138 displaying Bon Air.
> It wasn't a charter per se was it; it was sitting at the museum.
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> Snodder's is 'about' a mile north of Wilkinsburg and further south of the
> Allegheny as measured along its route.  Mr.Brannon identified the 
> location on the museum map.
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> More than location it would be interesting to know the origin of the
> name.
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> Phil
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> > From: Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
> >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org 
> >Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 3:44 PM
> >Subject: [PRCo] Re: FW: Snodders Switch
> > 
> >Google Image search says the actual image was Carnegie:
> >http://liquala.com/pcc-photo-49.html
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> >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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> >>> 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,
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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
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