[PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?

[Fred Schneider]

Look at some of the fine details ….

The headlight on the streetcar is a battery powered Electric Services Supply Company light that was put on the car after the PCC cars came to Pittsburgh … it is a PCC headlight.  

Look at the bridge railing.   Was PennDOT using that before the 1940s or 1950s?  

And asphalt paving right up to the rails.   Would we not expect Belgian blocks if this were an old picture?

The car in the far distance looks much more streamlined.

My money is on a fantrip … probably with 4398 … could that be the old Glenwood Bridge?   

I have used Bing Maps and scanned all the bridges in the valley.  None come close to this design and hillside slope other than Glenwood.

fws





On Sep 25, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:

> Mr.Brashear,
> 
> This looks like a case for Detective Lybarger doesn't it.  We know
> the only place the Charleroi line crossed the Monongahela is downtown
> Pittsburgh isn't it.  Thus the car is apparently heading south rather
> than north.
> 
> Is it near Monongahela City?  A bridge over a tributary is at Black
> Diamond Jct; double track leads to the Jct.  But this does not seem
> to fit.  It appears the car is on a bridge; the railing far side suggests
> this.  It also seems rather new construction; paving is new as well.
> The bridge across the Monongahela doesn't fit this location does it.
> 
> It looks like a coal tipple or associated structure spans the highway
> in the distance; I can not determine what the trolley tracks do at that
> distance.  I am looking for evidence of single track.
> 
> If the signs are correct this is a shuttle from Mongahela south and
> return not the Donora car.  I can not detect the motorman at the
> controller.  Did the car stop and pose for this picture?  Do schedules
> reveal a run or train "86"?
> 
> If the signs are correct this could be other places along the river
> from Mongahela south.  Does it fit any other location?
> 
> 
> Phil
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
>> To: Pittsburgh Railways Group <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org> 
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:01 AM
>> Subject: [PRCo] wrong side of the river?
>> 
>> Was route 906 on the west shore of the river ever? I assumed it was
>> always on the other side, only, and
>> thus the caption is incorrect?
>> 
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_beveridge/8014098467/
>> 
>> -- 
>> Derrick
>> 
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