Schoenville Shuttle, 1947
There was a pit at one end of the line for motor maintenance. The photo was taken at Nichols and Ohio St in Schoenville. The thing across the track is a wheel stop as the line ends at the bottom border of the picture.
https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt:401-4344-02-13
Thanks. More information from Ed:
I visited the website rc posted. Frank Fairbanks passed on about twelve years ago. We kept up correspondence after my move to Israel. He lived in a suburb near Pittsburgh. He was one year ahead of me at MIT. We did a lot of railfanning together. We were members of MIT's Railroad Club, and poassibly he was in the Tech Model RR Club as well.
He also was in ROTC.
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What is that thing he's carrying? Upright vacuum for car-cleaning? Golf bag with periscope for finding balls in water hazards?
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Golf bag with umbrella?
Same conclusion.
3765, June 1947, is probasbly on its way from Homewood Shops to its regular route via the Mt. Washington Tunnel, not usually scene at 11th and Liberty, near the PRR Station. Anyone able to tell me what synagogue or yeshava is or was nearby, with the near and far groups of men on the right apparently wearing yarmulkas?
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