PAT Snow Removal, PCC Work Cars and M-134

Fred W. Schneider III fschnei at supernet.com
Thu Jan 4 18:59:55 EST 2001


And in the evenings on Grandview Avenue on Mount Washington, it wouldn't
have mattered what color the lines were painted, people would still
block the tracks.  

Jim Holland wrote:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
>         Ex-5432, a South Hills original!
> 
>         Did Pgh. have 'wide streets?!' :->) --
>                 "<given Pittsburgh's street widths,>"
> 
> > John Swindler wrote:
> 
> > It was the "paint car".  Painted clearance lines on the street which, given
> > Pittsburgh's street widths, was intended to "hint" to both motorists and
> > carmen whether an auto was parked sufficiently away from the tracks.
> 
> James B. Holland
> 
>         Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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