[PRCo] Re: PRCo - "through?" lines

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

> > Correction: Brady St. Bridge was reason for splitting route 77/54 in early
> > 1960s.  Streetcar route 77/54 then ran northside-Bloomfield-Oakland to
> > Forbes-Seneca-Gist (two single track connections between Forbes and Fifth).
> > Small buses put on portion of route Oakland-Brady St. to southside.  Don't
> > recall if buses continued out S. 18th St. to Brentwood Loop.
> 
> I'll accept that I stand corrected.  That makes a whole lot more sense
> because that was the era that made one Pittsburgh doctor famous for
> climbing up on the steel work of the partly collapsed Brady St. Bridge
> to amputate the leg of an iron work who was pinned when the structure
> started to go down.  I've never understood how a surgeon could have
> enough adrenaline in him to do that! 

This happened in my memory, and hence after the end of streetcar service
entirely. My recollection is the service was "embargoed" due to a weight
limit on the Brady Street Bridge, at least I think I remember seeing an
article while scanning back Pittsburgh Press articles to that effect.