West Penn Today - Greensburg and Latrobe

[John Swindler]

>From: SaturnV at webtv.net (Bob Schmidt)
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: RE: West Penn Today - Greensburg and Latrobe
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:38:58 -0400 (EDT)
>
>Son of a Gun! Just jogged my memory, Don,
>I do remember tracks that were part of the cobblestone Wyoming stretch
>from Shiloh to where they ended at Bailey Avenue. How could I possibly
>forget the tracks that "threw" Dad's 41 Hudson one way or the other when
>his tires would get caught in the rails.
>
>In hopes of dating these observations,bBailey Ave.had already been
>resurfaced when I was a third grader at Cargo School (circa 1944). Cargo
>was only 50-ft. from the Bailey/Wyoming intersection. Whatever tracks,
>single or double, that had been a part of Bailey Ave. prior to its
>resurfacing, were either extracted or covered over. A rather dumbed down
>observation here would be that the #33 route had become history sometime
>earlier. But when? My guess is following the demolition of the #2 Castle
>Shannon incline described below.
>



How about the start of Saw Mill Run construction.

Rt. 33 Mt. Washington via West End split for Saw Mill Run construction on 5 
Nov. 1931

Rt. 33 cut back to McGann's Corner (?) on 15 August 1932

Bus rt. 200 started as replacement bus for rt. 33 on 20 Sept. 1932.  No 
information available on route, although suspect one might find information 
in Motor Coach Age.

Rt. 33 cut back to Main and Carson on 29 Jan. 1933.

No further information on rt. 33

This is from a draft of History of Pittsburgh transit prepared in 1974 by 
Oliver Miller for PATransit.

It also notes that first major abandonment of electric rail service by PRC 
was route 33 - Mt. Washington via West End on 15 Aug 1932

John S.


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