Route Relocations

[John Swindler]

>From: Kenneth and Tracie Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Route Relocations
>Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:39:16 +0000
>
>Derrick J Brashear wrote:
>
> > The only way it'd be feasible is if you
> > could somehow manage to use the P&WV right of way, but it's not that
> > large...
>
>This brings up another topic I've wondered about. Had Pittsburgh
>remained committed to citywide trolley service, how many street running
>trunk lines could or would have been shifted to parallel railroad rights
>of way as railroad traffic declined? Another "what if" idea to kick
>around. Ken J.


Harley Swift, PAT's first Executive Director, commissioned a study of 
potential rail rights-of-way and how they could be integrated into the 
then-existing ex. PRC rail network.  But then he was replaced by John 
Dameron.



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