<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Some of you beside me might remember when trains used the Pennsy (Union) Station at Grant and Liberty Streets in Pittsburgh. This story tells us that tearing down the train shed and erecting the individual platform sheds will not delay any of the station's 250 daily trains. Wow. So many commuter trains. And in 17 years they were all gone … all that remained were the long distance trains. And in 24 years it was down to a mobile home and one Chicago train, one always late St. Louis train, and one additional cross Pennsylvania train. But the future was bright in 1947 … here is the story about tearing down the trainshed.<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3353%2C2398224">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3353%2C2398224</a></div><div><br></div><div>Bottom of some page … anudder man tries to prove he is stronger than a moving trolley; loses that war. Like the Homestead incident a few days earlier, it was an old man. Maybe hard of hearing or visually challenged????</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374%2C2403709">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374%2C2403709</a></div><div><br></div><div>Five passengers hurt when Frankstown car derails.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5987%2C2859649">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5987%2C2859649</a></div><div><br></div><div>Another crash, same day … one streetcar rear ends another. Sounds like a clear case of pilot error. Slides into the rear of another car while piloting his car up hill???? As one friend of mine would have said, brakes failed to work in the space allocated for them to function. </div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1608%2C2889962">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1608%2C2889962</a></div><div><br></div><div>Not trolley … but a nice article on $600 million the railroads were spending to rebuild after the war. Then it for two more days.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3812%2C2960178">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JCsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3812%2C2960178</a></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3783%2C3232435">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=3783%2C3232435</a></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4067%2C3513471">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4067%2C3513471</a></div><div><br></div><div>Philadelphia Company serves warning that it will appeal if it doesn't get what it wants from the PUC. Two consecutive days of stores on the hearings.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5256%2C3090484">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5256%2C3090484</a></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4576,3361655">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4576%2C3361655</a></span></div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1584%2C3699688">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1584%2C3699688</a></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><div><br></div><div>Six at Woodlawn & Southern Bus Co. caught stealing fares.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4576%2C3361655">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JisbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4576%2C3361655</a></div><div><br></div><div>Several days after the Red Arrow derails on the mountain, a car Pullman breaks loose from a train and rolls free down the mountain.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C3980744">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4159%2C3980744</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is funny as hell … city bill drinking water for a cow in East Liberty that has been dead for six years because the city assessors are so short handed that they haven't visited the property in ten years.</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6351%2C3993046">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JysbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=CE0EAAAAIBAJ&pg=6351%2C3993046</a></div><div><br></div><div>AND THIS ENDS FEBRUARY 1947</div><div><br></div><div> </div>
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