Laketon Road -- Was: This Last Week

[Carl Zager]

Do we know how the replacement of the low-floor cars took place? Were they
retired by condition or on certain routes (or shops) first? When/where did
the last one run in revenue service?

I noted in a message to Fred that our family used to ride a bus from
Laketon Road into Wilkinsburg where we transferred to trolley to Homewood,
East Liberty, downtown. And often it was a low-floor.

The ubiqutous dot-dash map of PRy in Parkinson's book suggests that the
Laketon trolley route was abandoned in 1952. We lived on Parkway, just off
of Laketon, from 1948-1955. Admittedly, I would've only been 9 in '52, but
I was always aware of streetcars and streetcar tracks (I remember
commenting on the "cobble stone" pattern -- perpendicular between the
rails and parrallel outside the rails when we still were living on Bennett
Street). I just don't remember 1. ever riding a trolley into Wilkinsburg
from Laketon Road, nor 2. any trolley tracks on that section of Laketon.

Now that I have reached the age of the number of Heinz varieties...who
knows? <grin>

And yes, I know the paving bricks are not actually cobble stones. That's
just what my family always called them. Imagine my disappointment to
discover how even more uneven and rustic actual cobble stones really are.

 Carl Zager						KB9RVB
 czager at bloomington.in.us         http://www.mccsc.edu/~czager