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

[John Swindler]

Thought it was paved over rather quickly, at least at Squirrel Hill end.  
And recollection of riding 76 car was that it was also repaved at Fifth and 
Shady intersection by very early 1960s.  But this is testing recollection of 
a teen-ager 40 years later who didn't pay all that much attention to City of 
Pittsburgh paving projects.

But concerning retaining of Shady Ave. trackage, why?  Perhaps City was just 
a bit slower to repave Shady Ave., just as removal of Point Bridge took 
awhile.


>From: mrb190 <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: Re: Route--60--E. Liberty  to  Homestead & NEW QUESTION...
>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:19:39 -0500
>
>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
> > ------- -- ---------
> >         Pittsburgh Railways Company (PRCo), June of 1949 -- June of 1953
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