Route 53 - Carrick and south side

[Carl Zager]

I'm at work, so this won't be accurate or complete, but I have a map
distributed through the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum that shows active and
abandoned routes circa the 1960's that might help.

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Vigrass, Bill wrote:

> Was there ever a complete track map published of PRCo?  Such as by ERA? Or
> some other org?   I have Headlights 1949 to date, so perhaps there is one
> that I could find if someone gave me a reference. It would be fascinating.
> Bill V.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Swindler [mailto:j_swindler at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 2:19 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: RE: Route 53 - Carrick and south side
> 
> 
> Bill Vigrass wrote
> >
> >How could I have possibly forgotten the 77/54!   What was Carrick via the 
> >Tunnel?  54?   Bill.
> >
> 
> 
> How about 47-Carrick via Tunnel.
> 
> The 54 car line was a Carrick via Brady St. Bridge to Oakland, and possibly 
> to Lawrenceville area line, more years ago then any of us will recall.  
> Maybe it was a feeder to J&L southside steel plant for Oakland and hilltop 
> residents???
> 
> And the 77 went from Oakland via Lawrenceville to 16th St. Bridge to 
> northside.  It served the Heinz plant on the northside and the Strip 
> District.  Anyway, for whatever reason, PRC through routed these two lines 
> to create the famous (at least to Pittsburgh railfans) "flying fraction".
> 
> These are (vague) recollections from a historical route summary put together
> 
> by PAT in mid 1970s.  Ed at PTM may have access to PRC route card 
> information.
> 
> John
> 
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 Carl Zager
 KB9RVB
 czager at bloomington.in.us
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