<div dir="ltr">51st state?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:09 PM, Bob Rathke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net" target="_blank">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I'd question the basis of PAT's 1960's claim. In the mid-60's Toronto had more trolleys - and probably track miles too - than Pittsburgh.<br>
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From: "D Brashear" <<a href="mailto:shadow@dementix.org">shadow@dementix.org</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines<br>
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an ad in yesterday's City Paper from the Port Authority points out that<br>
Pittsburgh had the largest remaining trolley system in the US in the 1960s.<br>
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i find this ironic.<br>
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Bob Rathke <<a href="mailto:bobrathke@comcast.net">bobrathke@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Here's a link is to a 9/5/65 article in the Pittsburgh Press, posted<br>
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> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19650905&id=9gwvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KFEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5394%2C1084868" target="_blank">http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19650905&id=9gwvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KFEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5394%2C1084868</a><br>
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