Favorite Things Intersections

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Kenneth and Tracie Josephson wrote:

> I believe the ingenuity and masterful design of South Hills Junction may
> be lost on many fans because of its very survival. Think about it. Routes 21 and
> 40 have
> been gone for over thirty years, as have those interesting East End junctions you
> 
> mentioned. We have had to rely on system maps, geographical surveys and
> photographic
> images to appreciate these Pittsburgh traction marvelsin the present. To see them

I got a lot of appreciation for South Hills Junction particularly when
looking over the special work on the system in Goteborg, Sweden (where I
was last week)... I saw nothing there so complex as South Hills Junction,
while I'd generally consider their system on the whole to be more useful.

Still, if the downtown subway is the heart of the current system, SHJ is
the soul of it.

-D