Amusement Parks and Zoos

[Greg King]

Speaking of Trolley lines to amusement parks, our routes 96 (light rail) and
16 (tram) run right past the front of "Luna Park" and the cross country line
69 (tram) runs right to it.

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred W. Schneider III <fschnei at supernet.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:23 AM
Subject: Re: Amusement Parks and Zoos


> And if we're talking sites that once had parks ... I imagine the Cambria
County
> Transit Authority still runs a bus up to Roxbury.  The trolley loop was at
the site
> of the park but the park was gone long before I saw it.
>
> Kenneth Josephson wrote:
>
> > Fredbruhn at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > I'm almost afraid to answer a question out of the area, but COTA in
Columbus
> > > services the zoo and there is a separate amusment park that is
serviced too.
> >
> > As long as we're off topic, you can catch a Milwaukee transit bus to
their
> > county zoo in Wauwatosa.....  and two other routes serve State Fair Park
in West
> > Allis.  And Dayton still has a trolley coach route that served an
amusement park
> > when it was still a streetcar line. All that's left is a dance pavillion
and the
> > lake which the trolleys use to loop for the return downtown. Ken J.
>
>