remnants around the area

[mrb190]

Thanks for doing this.  Great photographs!   I didn't get to view but 4 of the
Wilmerding so far (the dementia server isn't responding for the moment), but
will view the rest as soon as the server allows.

When I pass through that section of Braddock, I often think that the reason
PAT continued to run cars through there after route 55 was abandoned, was
because of that stretch of private right of way.  PAT continued this service
by extending Munhall's route 65 to East Pittsburgh, as I'm sure you already
know.   Does anyone know for sure why PAT did this?   Was it because of the
private-right-of-way -- or perhaps because they still didn't have enough buses
to do the job?



Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> I decided earlier that taking pictures of remnants was a good idea, so I
> stopped a few places today and did so
>
> Look in
> http://trolley.dementia.org/pittsburgh-today/
>
> in the wilmerding folder you'll find shots of the track leading to the
> now-gone viaduct, plus in the area where the loop was
>
> in the mckeesport folder, 2 places: first is where the West Penn crossed
> over into Bryn Mawr, there was a bridge over a valley just after the line
> turned away from the state road (Lincoln Way) in what's now White Oak.
> Also the bit of track left exposed where 5th Avenue meets Lysle Boulevard
> (which is where Jerome St/Jerome Alley was) near the bridge over to
> Duquesne
>
> in the braddock folder, exposed trackage at the east end of Braddock along
> Braddock Avenue, where cars entered a side of road prw to run past Edgar
> Thompson Works.
>
> -D