<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 7:33 AM, DF Cramer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alto_trombone@hotmail.com" target="_blank">alto_trombone@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We got there just in time. By the time I was finished, the tracks were covered in oil and the first layer of paving was being put down. They did not scrape down to the tracks at any other point than here at the intersection of the two streets. They left some blacktop over the center of the street.<br>
I really like the brickwork adjacent to the tracks.<br>
I am surprised they left them in, but it is PennDot doing the work not the borough. Further up Fourth Avenue, the telltale signs of tie rot are evident in the rippled pavement. Temporary inconvenience, Not so permanent improvement. As one of my former students stated, "The trolley tracks get to breath and see the light of day once again. Soon they will be paved over and be hidden for another generation to discover."<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Oddly I haven't seen a lot of tie rot. The obvious place is 2 blocks from my coffeeshop-of-record, and we talked about it 3 years ago.<br><br><a href="http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/2011-September/028870.html">http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/2011-September/028870.html</a><br>
<br></div><div>There's been paving in the 1600 block, but the 1500 block still has tie rot, and where the line is in the 1200 block of Bingham on the other side of Carson is where the little bit of rail protrudes from the pavement. Amazing that trackage from 1891 and probably abandoned since the big merger but certainly not later than about 1915 is still there. <br>
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