Hah, Fort Duquesne Bridge wasn&#39;t done so in the first picture the rightmost exit was the &quot;Point Exit&quot;<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Bob Rathke <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net" target="_blank">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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Dwight,<br>
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Such rerouting was not uncommon in February -M ar ch in Pi ttsburgh.   On March 11, 19 64 during flooding of the P&amp;LE station I photographed B&amp;O Washington-Chicago trains relocated to the B&amp;O station on Grant St..  See attached photos of the flooding along Ft. Pitt Blvd. and the Parkway  (looking west from the  Smithfield St. Bridge), an d set-out cars from B&amp;O trains 7-8 (Sh enandoah) and 9-10 (Washington-Chicago Express) in the B&amp;O station. that day.<br>

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----- Original Message -----<br>
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</div>From: &quot;Dwight Long&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:dwightlong@verizon.net">dwightlong@verizon.net</a>&gt;<br>
<div class="im">To: &quot;Western PA Trolley discussion&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>&gt;<br>
</div>Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 10:06:54 PM<br>
<div><div class="h5">Subject: Re: [PRCo] April 18, 1931 - Proposal to Save Butler Line<br>
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Bob<br>
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In early 1959 I rode a very late running Capital Ltd/Columbian out of Grant<br>
Street Station to Balto.  It had come in over the P&amp;W account flooding on<br>
the P&amp;LE.<br>
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Dwight<br>
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----- Original Message -----<br>
From: &quot;Bob Rathke&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>&gt;<br>
To: &quot;Western PA Trolley discussion&quot;<br>
&lt;<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>&gt;<br>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:46 PM<br>
Subject: Re: [PRCo] April 18, 1931 - Proposal to Save Butler Line<br>
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&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I&#39;m not sure if it was called, &quot;commuter service&quot;, but in the T eens and T<br>
&gt; wenties - and well into the 40&#39;s - the B&amp;O had regional passenger service<br>
&gt; f rom Pittsburgh to Butler and New Castle via Zelien ople . In the 20&#39;s t<br>
&gt; he branch to But ler diverted from the B&amp;O mainline south of Evans City<br>
&gt; near Callery, and by the 40&#39; s the line to Butler diverted from the<br>
&gt; mainline at Eidenau which is just northwest of Evans City. Between<br>
&gt; Pittsburgh and Callery/Eidenau the B&amp;O served passengers at places like<br>
&gt; Etna, Allison Park, Glenshaw, Gibsonia, Mars and Vanencia.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Until the early 30&#39;s, the B&amp;O&#39;s Washington D.C. to Chicago mainline<br>
&gt; passenger t rains ran between Pittsburgh and New Castle via the Evans City<br>
&gt; line. After that time, the B&amp;O&#39;s Washington-Chicago passenger trains had<br>
&gt; trackage rights over the P&amp;LE between McKeesport and New Cas tle. And, for<br>
&gt; a time in the late 1980&#39;s and early 90&#39;s some Pittsburgh-Chicago Amtrak<br>
&gt; trains used the line through Evan City.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Bob<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; ----- Original Message -----<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; From: &quot;Schneider, Fred&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; To: &quot;Western PA Trolley discussion&quot;<br>
&gt; &lt;<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>&gt;<br>
&gt; Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 8:01:18 PM<br>
&gt; Subject: Re: [PRCo] April 18, 1931 - Proposal to Save Butler Line<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; No way I can trump &quot;not in Harmony&quot; with &quot;travel to Mars.&quot; Yins are being<br>
&gt; very punny.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; Me thinks there were too many old timers who wanted to stay back in 1915<br>
&gt; but didn&#39;t understand that by 1931 almost all the rural families had a<br>
&gt; motor car (or as it was called in eastern Pennsylvania, a machine). Of<br>
&gt; those 70,000 people, I&#39;ll bet if you looked at the passenger revenues<br>
&gt; collected versus the one-way fare from Pittsburgh to Butler and the total<br>
&gt; passengers carried, you might find the same thing I did analyzing the<br>
&gt; Lancaster system and that is that most passengers were only riding a<br>
&gt; couple of miles. In the case of the Harmony route, I&#39;d almost be willing<br>
&gt; to bet that the cars were empty on most trips through the middle of the<br>
&gt; route and that most passengers rode only for a mile or two into Butler, or<br>
&gt; the last couple miles from Allison Park or Glenshaw into Etna.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I have no clue what kind of railroad commuter service the B&amp;O had then …<br>
&gt; that&#39;s Bob Rathke&#39;s area … but I suspect even in the teens the people who<br>
&gt; wanted to go from Butler to Pittsburgh used the mainline trains because<br>
&gt; they were faster.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; On Apr 29, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Dwight Long wrote:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Ed<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Yes, it is quite true. Their (PRC) views were not in Harmony with folks<br>
&gt;&gt; trying to save the interurbans.<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Dwight<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; ----- Original Message -----<br>
&gt;&gt; From: &quot;Edward H. Lybarger&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:trams2@comcast.net">trams2@comcast.net</a>&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; To: &quot;&#39;Western PA Trolley discussion&#39;&quot;<br>
&gt;&gt; &lt;<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt; Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 3:42 PM<br>
&gt;&gt; Subject: Re: [PRCo] April 18, 1931 - Proposal to Save Butler Line<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; PRCo didn&#39;t have any money, either. I don&#39;t think they were interested<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; in<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; travel to Mars.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Ed<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; -----Original Message-----<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; From: <a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org</a><br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; [mailto:<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways-bounces@mailman.dementix.org</a>] On Behalf Of<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Barry, Matthew R<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 2:21 PM<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; To: Western PA Trolley discussion<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; (<a href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org</a>)<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Subject: [PRCo] April 18, 1931 - Proposal to Save Butler Line<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Pittsburgh Railways is asked to take over the line.<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt; Matt<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
&gt;&gt;&gt;<br>
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