Finleyville Photo

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Fri Mar 31 16:01:57 EST 2000


On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> Don't know about the rails being buried...haven't been out there with a
> metal detector lately (or ever)!  But the PUC required removal of at least
> the rail head when they granted the abandonment petition.  I suspect you'd
> find the base (and perhaps some of the web) still there.  Marion Avenue is
> not a thoroughfare that cries for frequent repaving to withstand the crush
> of heavy traffic.

Well, this was telltale cracks, if I recall, about 3 years ago... and a
sewer grate placed perpendicular to and between the tracks at the next
block on Marion...

-D





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