Route--60--E. Liberty to Homestead & NEW QUESTION...

[mrb190]

I would suspect that the Route 60 line was often extended to Kennywood
during the Kennywood season.   

As for it's making a turn onto the Rankin Bridge and so on, that would
seem odd, unless the intent was to make a big circular route, over one
bridge (Homestead) and back on another (Rankin) to East Liberty...

NEW QUESTION:   Was the Shady Avenue trackage retained for a time after
the route 60 line was abandoned?  I always wondered if it was used for
shuttle or emergency service later between East Liberty and Squirrel
Hill.  I think the line was intact in the early sixties even though the
Murry Avenue trackage had been paved or removed...

Matt

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
>         As I understand the route, from E. Liberty the car runs on Penn, Shady,
> Forbes, Murray, Hazelwood, Browns Hill Road, and 8th Ave. in Homestead
> to a loop *before* the Rankin Bridge.  This URL is of 1259 at Kennywood
> (http://davesrailpix.railfan.net/pitts/htm/wvp138.htm) so I assume the
> route is extended past its normal terminal along Duquesne Blvd to
> Kennywood.
>         The June 1949 ERA map of PRCo indicates that the 60 turns left onto the
> Rankin Bridge and follows the 67 line northwest to Forbes.  But if this
> is the case, it must turn right at Forbes and then travel either the 87
> or 76 back to Penn in E. Liberty as it is impossible to make a right
> turn from Forbes onto Shady.  I assume that this is an error in the
> map.  Someone else asked me about this and I would just like to confirm.
> 
> James B. Holland
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