Historical Trolleycars in Pgh ??? !!!!!!!

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	Wait until Derrick gets the archives up  --  that  HAS  been discussed
here.

	But when pressure to form an actual organization to spearhead such an
event was exerted, it got mighty quiet around here!!

Greg King wrote:

> Thanks for that guys, wonder when someone will come with the idea of a
> tourist trolley in the downtown area (I ducked when I said that).
> Greg
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Schmidt <SaturnV at webtv.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Second Avenue/Tenth/Carson *also 11th street in town

> > Right, Don. Tom Hannon, (operator of PAT' s M283 crane car in the 80's),
> > lived on Beltzhoover at about the point where Bailey became Beltzhoover.
> > I remember discussing those paving marks and recall him mentioning he
> > had no recollection of any trolley operation requiring rails in that
> > section of Beltzhoover Avenue. The closest "in service" streetcar line
> > was located at the bottom of that hill at the Warrington Ave./
> > Beltzhoover intersection where the 44, 48, and 49 routes operated.

> > Exposed PRC rails can be seen on a short section of old East Ohio Street
> > in Millvale in front of West Penn Laco Co. There's also a more generous
> > stretch of trackage laid in red brick paving stone on Chestnut Street,
> > Northside, that runs from one block North of East Ohio Street to Spring
> > Garden Avenue.

> > Bob S.

James B. Holland

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