Panhandle

[Dietrich, Robert J.]

My favorite recollection of the Panhandle Bridge was watching them turn the
AeroTrain while slowly walking my paper route.  The train came into the
Pennsy Station from the east and after unloading was brought through the
tunnel and across the bridge and turned at the wye at the south end.  I
don't think the panhandle Bridge was ever out of operation, just not needed
and not used much due to lower traffic volume.

There were a couple books put out recently about the Pennsy in the Steel
City that had some detail about the whole Panhandle Division.

Bob

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Donald Galt [mailto:galtfd at att.net] 
Sent:	Thursday, January 06, 2000 7:59 PM
To:	pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject:	Re: Panhandle

On 6 Jan 00, at 18:39, HRBran99 at aol.com wrote:

> You will note I said "Conrail", not Amtrak. I used to watch the trains
cross 
> the bridge as I was operating a PCC just to the west on Smithfield St.
Bridge.
> 
Chances are I too saw trains on the bridge during the three or four times I 
was in Pittsburgh during the '70s. Then again, maybe not - somehow I think 
it would have registered in memory, going in the face of my first
impression.

My first real memory of the bridge in use is of the LR cars ca.1986.

D2