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Kenneth Josephson
kjosephson at sprintmail.com
Mon Dec 18 22:28:52 EST 2000
This bridge is a true monument to the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Steel:
http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/images/pittsburgh_north_side/halfjpeg/pns28.jpg
Perhaps we can re-enact this scene at PTM after I finish restoring my '59 Chevy:
http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/images/pittsburgh_north_side/halfjpeg/pns88.jpg
Pure Pittsburgh:
http://www.transitgloriamundi.com/images/pittsburgh_north_side/halfjpeg/pns67.jpg
This last image brings home the cold hard fact that in addition to the usual expenses and losses most
major transit systems had to contend with during the 1950s and '60s, Pittsburgh Railways' infrastructure
would have given untold nightmares to the bean counters of most other systems of comparable size! How's
that for a run-on sentence? Ken J.
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