[PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?

[Herb Brannon]

Fred,
Do you realize you might need a new pair of glasses?
The enlarged sections of the photo clearly show the additional trolley pole
and hangar.
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Do you understand dirt or scratches on a negative?
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> On Sep 28, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
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> > Then kindly explain the trolley pole and hangar. There is another photo
> in
> > there.
> > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net
> >wrote:
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> >> Ed
> >>
> >> Bravo!
> >>
> >> This is one where the answer is right before one=E2=80=99s face, but
> too =
> >> obscured to see it!  I was on that trip, and took extensive fots,  =
> >> INCLUDING ONE AT THAT LOCATION, which is MIA, as are the negatives.
>  But =
> >> to add support to your answer, here is a shot of 4398 on that trip but =
> >> with a Finleyville top sign up=E2=80=94this taken on the Union Avenue =
> >> spur on the North Side.
> >>
> >> What threw me, and perhaps others, off is that the reproduction is so =
> >> poor that we misread the car number, I as 4399 and someone else as
> 4333, =
> >> both of which are reasonable interpretations of what can be seen in the
> =
> >> posted fot.  I should have gone back into my records=E2=80=94the answer
> =
> >> would have popped up from them.  Not the first time I=E2=80=99ve been =
> >> led down the primrose path by one little errant =E2=80=9Cfact.=E2=80=9D
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> >> Thanks for your help in resolving this once and for all.  Sorry, Herb!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Dwight
> >>
> >> From: Edward H. Lybarger=20
> >> Sent: Friday, 28 September, 2012 08:55
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org=20
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?
> >> Sorry, I've been away and am not up to date on emails (nor have I begun
> =
> >> to
> >> read the new book, copy of which I obtained Monday).  This photo is =
> >> exactly
> >> where the caption says it is.  The car was operating in fantrip service
> =
> >> on
> >> June 12, 1955.  The signs are absolutely meaningless here.
> >>
> >> Ed
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
> >> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of =
> >> Phillip
> >> Clark Campbell
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 8:59 AM
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: wrong side of the river?
> >>
> >> 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.=20
> >> 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?
> >>> =20
> >>> Was route 906 on the west shore of the river ever? I assumed it was=20
> >>> always on the other side, only, and thus the caption is incorrect?
> >>>
> >>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/scott_beveridge/8014098467/
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> >>> --
> >>> Derrick
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> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park